Light Echoes
Table of Contents
A Conversation Of Equals 4
The Story Of Starting 6
Chemically Reactive 8
Barely Morning 10
The Answer Depends On The Day 12
A Day Of Naming 14
Somewhere To Shine 16
Unstable Orbits 18
Making Peace With The Past 20
Playing What If vI 22
Solace 24
Still Glow 26
A Comfortable Frustration 28
The Way Through Is Always Together 30
This Absence Called Night 32
Safely Unanchored 34
Making Meaning 36
Carrying Confidence To Dark Spaces 38
Too Fragile A Vessel 40
Rapture 42
Morning Moon 44
I Need You Like Air 46
Someday Is For Soft Things 48
Rehearsing The Future 50
Unsettled Places 52
Breathing Blue 54
Drawn To The Grey 56
I Do It For The Dopamine 58
The Back Burner 60
The Strength To Sever The Ties 62
Embracing The Need 64
Even In Absence 66
The Ache Of The Unattainable 68
I Am The Offering 70
Never Let Go Of The Thread 72
Positive Disintegration 74
Hear, Remember, Trust, Surrender 76
The Softer Side Of Shadow 78
The Door That I've Been Looking For 80
Shouting To The Darkness "I AM HERE!" 82
Anticipating Depth 84
Inner Oceans vXIV 86
Light Echoes
Light Echoes is an ongoing photography project, started November of 2023, in which I take photos in and around my community in southern Arizona and collage them digitally to create new meaning and understanding of where I have been.
A light echo can occur when starlight reflects off interstellar material and becomes visible on earth at different times. Astronomers collage snapshots of the sky over time to get more complete information of the life and death of stars. When we peer into the sky we are always seeing things that happened in the past.
In a similar way, the final images I create are light echoes of my own past. They are made up of things that were illuminating to me in that particular moment, most often concrete, rusted metal and disused equipment.
Light Echoes is about looking back through time and finding the hidden story in my environment, as well as within myself.
This book is dedicated to Jane Dunnewold, an artist, author, mentor, friend, and creator of Creative Strength Training: An Online Artist’s Community, and to K. Wayne Harms. The sentiment has never been more true, in so many ways, that without them both, this book would not exist.
A Conversation Of Equals
The Story Of Starting
Chemically Reactive
Barely Morning
The Answer Depends On The Day
A Day Of Naming
Somewhere To Shine
Unstable Orbits
Making Peace With The Past
Playing What If vI
Solace
Still Glow
A Comfortable Frustration
The Way Through Is Always Together
This Absence Called Night
Safely Unanchored
Making Meaning
Carrying Confidence To Dark Spaces
Too Fragile A Vessel
Rapture
Morning Moon
I Need You Like Air
Someday Is For Soft Things
Rehearsing The Future
Unsettled Places
Breathing Blue
Drawn To The Grey
I Do It For The Dopamine
The Back Burner
The Strength To Sever The Ties
Embracing The Need
Even In Absence
The Ache Of The Unattainable
I Am The Offering
Never Let Go Of The Thread
Positive Disintegration
Hear, Remember, Trust, Surrender
The Softer Side Of Shadow
The Door That I've Been Looking For
Shouting To The Darkness "I AM HERE!"
Anticipating Depth
Inner Oceans vXIV
