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For years now I have been wandering the world photographing the things that catch my eye. It's not always the things that
other travelers see. I am fascinated by details, and until the middle of this past century, the details were what mattered.
I like to think that photographing the small work of some long passed stonecarver keeps him alive in some way, transports
him to worlds he never even dreamed existed. I imagine that when we look at these images, somehow their original creators
know, maybe even look back.
Some of these places exist only in my head. I have combined images to create a place, or a scene that doesn't exist anywhere
else, and strangely enough, some people look at the print and swear they have been to that very place. You are where you think
you are.
I really am fascinated by the idea that when most of these statues were carved, and most of the buildings created, the
people responsible had no idea that this part of the world even existed, let alone that a thousand years later someone would
be seeing their work in this whole new medium. Just imagine how foreign, how completely alien our lives are to theirs.
By photographing these things, maybe there is some tenuous thread, stretching across time between the sculptor and me,
or between the sculptor and the person looking at the photograph of his work.
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