There Are Kicks

The photo is an honest to Pete mid-flight soccer kick.
Two more seconds, and the boy, still airborne, wailed the soccer ball with his left foot, sending the thing about twenty, thirty feet high. The ball tore a straight line up toward the sky.

"I've won three trophies," he said, matter of factly, head looking down, foot sweeping the wintry grass.

I asked him to do it again. I had to see this mind-boggling stunt again. There are kicks, and then there are kicks that freshen the world.

Up until that moment, the day had appeared like any other.

Around the Corner

When you live on a street called Lookout Circle, shape truly is part of the location.
Living on a circle with its gentle curves and soft suburban edges framed my early viewpoint.
Our house stood three stories high at the top of the hill that rolled up and down this circular street. We were perched in such a way that the curve of land with its band of houses stretched nearly equally left and right. Surely the idea of a center also figured into my visual upbringing.

If my childhood horizon- tree-lined and spotted with Con Ed electrical hardware, was a lens, it would have to be a fisheye lens, arched and slightly warped, with just a hint of weirdness.

But, enough about my childhood.

In this image, the lookout appears to be the person in the corner, the one on the left looking out across a frame.

Pulling Threads

I picked up a thread recently. It was an image I made two summers ago while taking a workshop on photographing the nude. The image had three thin lines and skin. Lots and lots of white skin. People who saw the image knew it was a part of the body, but they couldn't locate it, weren't sure exactly what it was. The familiar indecipherable intrigued me. There was an abstraction that seemed to veer away from the literalness that is tied to the camera and to photography in general.

This month I decided to pick up the thread of that initial image and create a series of work based on the abstracted nude. Here's an image from this exploration.