CURRENT WORK

Complementing the archival function of this site is the foregrounding of my current interests and the evidence of what I’ve been working on and the direction I am going.

With the freedom from the responsibilities of an institutional position I have been exploring hybrid forms of work that include text as well as images. I have been eager to try to write with styles and topics more accessible to a general intelligent reader and to offer images that complement the writings. Half a century of academic writing (hundreds of thousands of published words) forms a gestural naturalization for this style. I feel adept at this kind of writing, yet I’ve wanted to develop new accessible styles. The complementation of images with words is at the core of my efforts. Yet this aspiration has demanded that I learn a great deal about making pictures. I will always be amateur but perhaps a good one. Most recently I am working on feeling that my creativity should first be explored in making images and secondly in words. It has not been easy, but the gradual shifting of priorities has been satisfying. It amounts to a re-making of who I am to fit more closely with who I imagine I might be.