Digital Photoseries
Made with help from photographer Tony Smidt
Prints available by request.
San Narciso takes place on a mound with the love of my life.
The name refers to a fictional California city originally described by Thomas Pynchon.
It was a city of ceaseless seeking and incredible self-interest. Like the novel it was inscribed in, it was a place people went for answers and left (if they made it out at all) with infinitely more questions.
My lover in this series is a lot like that town. I go to her for answers, for solace. I feel compelled to engage with her, I cannot imagine a life without her. But it is a product of my own creation. There is nothing it can teach me that I do not already know somewhere within myself.
Is it possible to maintain a relationship where I do all of the giving and all of the taking? Does that contradict the essential nature of a relationship? Or are we reaching toward a novel sort of balance?
The name refers to a fictional California city originally described by Thomas Pynchon.
It was a city of ceaseless seeking and incredible self-interest. Like the novel it was inscribed in, it was a place people went for answers and left (if they made it out at all) with infinitely more questions.
My lover in this series is a lot like that town. I go to her for answers, for solace. I feel compelled to engage with her, I cannot imagine a life without her. But it is a product of my own creation. There is nothing it can teach me that I do not already know somewhere within myself.
Is it possible to maintain a relationship where I do all of the giving and all of the taking? Does that contradict the essential nature of a relationship? Or are we reaching toward a novel sort of balance?
