b e t w e e n o r b e f o r e : s e l f - p o r t r a i t s o n g o i n g

My self-portraits have become a chronology over fifteen years of making that I willfully, yet privately, continue. They provide a sense of cohesion, a sense of gravity. I don't often show them; they emerge from solitary spaces in which the camera is the sole witness.

In the photographs from Between Or Before I am trying to come down from the flying, rapid movements of previous persuasions, to locate the ground, the present space. This attentiveness to space is entirely contrary to boredom. Boredom is instead standoffish--a kind of stance--a refusal to look, a resistance to find something to be susceptible to. When I look at the camera I am not trying to look past it, at a forecasted audience, but back at a place without fixed points, toward a liminal space.