The Firmament
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. – Pascal
GIft
Before my friend Fran passed away, I asked her what I could do for her. She asked me to photograph her garden. It was winter.
Final passage
She has hesitated at the door for more than a hundred years. For centuries to come, the same question will be asked about the look on her face. Is it despondency for her final passage? Or is this the sorrow of her last look at life.
A FOREVER HEART MAZE
“If you don’t get to the heart, you lose. If you do get to the heart, you win another heart. You also win another maze.” Sonia, Age 6
everpresent
When my daughter was a child, we sometimes visited beautiful Wave Hill for family art day. On one walk through its wild wooded outer grounds, we found this stone in the ground. Over the years, I have returned to look for this stone, to find it still there – and to see, in fact, it is always different.
PARKLAND GRADUATION HAT
The MSD Seventeen will not walk the commencement stage; they have crossed elsewhere. They live on though through those who survived, those who are calling to us now.
A ROYAL COUPLE
I have never made a more romantic picture, nor a happier one. I don’t know if they believed they might have a future together. I heard the young man died a year later. This was their moment.
