Photography tells the truth, but only for an instant. The most a camera can offer is that hundreth of a second, looking through a tiny hole, upside down. The rest of it, we make up, to satisfy our need for linear time. Humans live in moments, cameras in instants, and we have trouble with the singular instant as perceived by a truly two dimensional being.

Cameras cannot understand time the same way we cannot understand god - we get the basics about power and will and eternity, but that is simply not a consciousness we can attain. A camera can hold the shutter open for a longer or shorter amount of time, but there is never anything beyond that instant. The camera has no two-frame memories.

That is why so many of us are attracted to photography - we get to make up these momentary stories to fit an image, and the stories are of ourselves, of every viewer. The still exposure becomes a full frame only when viewed, and the viewer becomes as much a part of the photo as the image itself. Just as I am alone without a camera, photos are alone without a viewer, and so these photos are here as I ask you to help me make them live.