May 19, 2005
Colorado Springs Colorado

Days like today are too hard lots of driving and introspection. Thinking about motivation in general, mine in particular. Weston we out and photographed everything with a passion was almost driven to it. Friends, family, landscapes, portraits anything that presented itself to his field of vision. Mapplethorpe, well I guess he had 3 main thrusts…. Flowers, portraits and the other. Avedon, he took his white paper west and with a production and support crew to rival NASA or the current Home Land Security Team, photographed people. So here am I heading east and north looking at another bus.
Feeling an almost frantic need for more space more time more something.

Driving through Navajo Land today started looking at doors to homes or in some cases I guess just houses. Started wondering what the people who live behind them see as they approach the door, getting ready to open it and enter the space beyond. How different their perceptions of those doors must be from mine as I travel past them.

The folks who stand by the road all day with the stop/slow signs at construction sights. Do you wonder about them as you sit beside them in your air conditioned car perhaps cursing them for delaying your important journey? What do they think about us as we drive by. What perceptions of our lives do they have from the fleeting (sometimes not so fleeting) glances into our lives. And what about our perceptions of their lives. Do they wish they were in one of those cars all seemly knowing where they are going, with important destinations. Happily off on the family vacation or returning from a successful business trip.

Didn’t make any photographs today.

’nuff said