http://www.lightstalkers.org/bobblack <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am blind.<span> </span>How then do I begin to account from the un-seeing? If not inside the chaotic and frantic harbor of our body, where then can we seek to remedy the channels by which we seek an understanding of things? Later, this: curved, wearied back stretching beneath the darkening porch light, I sit and fight the perpetual battle: should I write in response to a thought or sound or voice with which I travel.<span> </span>How best to suggest similarity: the propinquity of our perpetual disappearance. So this: I recall my wife's feet scratching against the pavement of an October evening while my son's air-chasing echo'd words called to us to catch up. I realized that I could never detail how both of those sounds entered my blood and unseated the blindness in which I find myself most of the time: how to give physical body to that which carves us invisibly. Inside the accordion flaps which is my photography, I have tried to capture with the blind basket of my eyes, those things which pass around, through and inside me, corporal or fleeting: bereft breathing. There is no truth in photography but in the sovereignty of the inner landscape of our life's reckoning selves. We wane.<span> </span>We expand. We seed. We hunger. We are blind. What else can we do?<span> </span>We do not resist. I p.s. O, okay, a real bio: I teach, I stalk light, I develop light, I write, I scribble, I create and curate a weekly photography projection series of international photographers along with my wife, I drink, I laugh, I breathe, I live..... What else is a poor boy to do? ;) my weekly photography projection project: http://www.indexg.com/screening.asp http://indexg.com/screening_archive.asp en-us <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/356753/marinaquebec_small.jpg' /><br />Quebec: Woman<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/356753'>Quebec: Woman</a> Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:11:04 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/356753 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/350548/300952277_4b2892c5ac_o_small.jpg' /><br />Ocean: Night<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/350548'>Ocean: Night</a> Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:49:44 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/350548 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/338240/mexicanwoman_small.jpg' /><br />Mexican Woman<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/338240'>Mexican Woman</a> Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:25:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/338240 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/310138/body_small.jpg' /><br />toronto: woman: ringa<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310138'>toronto: woman: ringa</a> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:41:49 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310138 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/310123/house1_small.jpg' /><br />Portugal: House & Street<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310123'>Portugal: House & Street</a> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:41:25 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310123 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/310120/streetcar_small.jpg' /><br />Lisbon: Streetcar and Man<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310120'>Lisbon: Streetcar and Man</a> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:41:21 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310120 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/310117/dima1_small.jpg' /><br />Portugal: child<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310117'>Portugal: child</a> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:41:16 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310117 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/310114/dimalley_small.jpg' /><br />Portugal: Boy: Alley<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310114'>Portugal: Boy: Alley</a> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:41:12 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310114 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/310111/house2_small.jpg' /><br />Portugal: House-Street<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310111'>Portugal: House-Street</a> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:41:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310111 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/310108/church3_small.jpg' /><br />Lisbon: Church<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310108'>Lisbon: Church</a> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:41:02 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/310108