Brief Lives is a body of photographs which ask to what extent a place can be abstracted into ephemeral characteristics. The images show the environment outside the house where I live, which is dominated by a field bounded by the Connecticut River in southeastern Vermont.
I grant sustained attention, sometimes over the course of years, to small and recurring objects and processes in this environment. There are lumen images of my breath, the quality of light bracketed as a subject in-itself, the thinnest sides of flower petals, obscura images of my windows and doors, deep ruts in the field, and the swallows that migrate and nest here. This place has become a frame for me to watch things come in and out of existence.
