At the center of the photographic impulse there is a tension between the desire to watch a moment pass and to preserve it in an image. This project is about the simultaneous, yet diametrically opposed components of the impulse to photograph. The wish to let something go and watch it change— and the will to hold it fixed as it changes form. By making photograms of buried letters, then letting the photograms disintegrate and preserving the process of disintegration, I was exploring the idea of letting both instincts, destruction and preservation, have an equal part in the process of making a photograph. These are unique c-prints.
