The goal of this project, started in 2000 and ended in 2011, was to make one scan every day. Previously created negatives, slides, and prints selected from my files joined a parade of found objects, journal pages, collages, and gifts in this eclectic mix.
What emerges from the project is not only a record of how successful I was in sustaining this image-making ritual, but also unexpected visual and thematic relationships that come to life when the scans are viewed en masse.
In a strict sense this is not one person’s visual diary in harmonious sync with the daily events, moods or musings that engaged me. Yes, connections with events in the greater world and my inner world anchor the work, however the end result is more a rambling narrative performed by a parade of actors moving across the stage in an improvisational theatre piece.
Viewers of the scans often yearn for written explanations that help provide clues as to what they are seeing and inform them as to the significance each day’s offering has to me. As the marking of time, and accounting for things have as much to do with this project as do the joys and burdens of memory, I have acquiesced to my audience and provided a modicum of identifying information in the appendix at the end of this volume.