Between Or Before: Self-Portraits

Over the years self-portraits have become a chronology that I willfully, yet privately, continue.

They are my way to locate gravity, to come down from the flying, rapid, ephemeral movements of previous persuasions, to locate the ground. This attentiveness is contrary to boredom. Boredom is instead standoffish, a kind of stance, a refusal to look, a resistance to find something to be susceptible to.

I like these liminal spaces without identifiable events or happenings--where action is unforeseeable, latent, always shifting. Such moments between or before any explicit happening, comfort me. They serve as temporary resting points, outside of task, outside of product, of making.

Whether they take place upon ships, along walking-paths, inside borrowed bedrooms or train cars, they
are spaces occupied en route elsewhere.