1967 Peach St.
Issue 1 of Wavelengths tells the story of my experience visiting Robert Oppenheimer's home at Los Alamos. In conversation with banyan tree mythology found in the Bhagavad Gita, it's a reflection not just on Oppenheimer's legacy, but also my own, as I transition from a career in science to a new life in art.
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I really love this ! I love the story it made the shots really meaningful and they're amazing on their own. Really great work I want walk through that door 🙂
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This is smart. Curious and questing. Honest and sometimes hard. Ethereal, but then so down-to-earth, I swear I can feel its feet on the ground. And you’re here with us—a fellow traveler, happy to share the questions and keen to invite us along as more colleague than consumer. And the photos, well you say the place “sang light into them” and it sure did. They're stunning, and the interplay between them and the text makes the whole thing more lovely than the sum of its parts. I’ve been looking forward to seeing this, and hoped to have something really constructive and helpful to say, but it exceeded all my expectations. Now I’m just excited to see the next one!
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Thank you so much Damon! I'm glad you liked it! It's been very challenging jumping back into writing after spending a couple of years just on photography. They are very different modes for understanding the world. I feel like this essay beat me up a bit, ngl, but it's okay. I think what finally surfaced was new for me, esp with regard to found texts. I kinda found "the photograph" as a found text in the mix and that's what I was after. I'm looking forward to doing more of these too (now!) Hahaha! Thanks for chiming in!
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