“The Future Has an Ancient Heart”

Carlo Levi

Here, in Italy, there’s always a stepping backward, and an inching forward. The past is heavy, pesante, evident in the shape of buildings, the construction of walls, and the corners of rooms. 

I started to photograph what I found, places, objects, and scenes. In looking, I discovered my language, finding visual verbs, nouns, and articles in the world. An optical lexicon, this assortment of images is driven by a desire to describe and collect. A desire, also, to keep. Because I cannot keep a mountainside or a frescoed wall, I photograph them instead. 

These photographs represent ten months of living and working in Italy, from 2014 - 2018