De/Layers

by Randall Honold

As a kid I coexisted with junk: cans and scrap metal left to rust by the back shed, lengths of high-voltage electrical wire in piles in the garage, rotting planks with peeling paint and stuck through with tetanus-carrying nails at the back lot line. Everything was beautiful. Now living with global warming and a late-life body, I’m surrounded by changed and changing objects even more intensely. Everything is stupefying. When I have a camera in hand I can’t help but view the present layered on the past projected into possible futures, and following Garry Winogrand, I want to see what these scenes look like in photographs.

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