Silence Is, After All, The

Among The Most Compelling Truths In Some Of The Early Photographs Is Their Implication Of Silence.

. . .art Is A Discovery Of Harmony, A Vision Of Disparities Reconciled, Or Shape Beneath Confusion.

At Our Best And Most Fortunate We Make Pictures Because Of What Stands Before Our Camera, To Honor What Is Greater And More Interesting Than We Are. We Never Accomplish This Perfectly, Though In Return We Are Given Something Perfect--a Sense Of Inclusion. Our Subject Thus Redefines Us, And Is Part Of The Biography By Which We Want To Be Known.

The Only Way You Will Ever Awaken Is Through Silence, Not Through Analyzation Of Facts. Not By Sorting Out Good And Bad, But Through Simple Silence, Letting Go. Letting Go Of All Thoughts, All The Hurts, All The Dogmas And Concepts. Letting Go Of These Things Daily.

Whatever Power There Is In The Urban Pictures Is Bound To The Closeness With Which They Skirt Banality. For A Shot To Be Good — Suggestive Of More Than Just What It Is — It Has To Come Perilously Near Being Bad, Just A View Of Stuff.