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Adding narrative, adding essential dialogue, assigning meaning

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Front yard talisman, assembled over time to protect from intruders,  probably the kind that no one sees. A backyard talisman, protecting the inhabitants from, what?

1972 Self Portrait

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1972-3 Louisville Kentucky Reflection of self  even back then i was trying to figure out who I was Some things never change  I thought If could capture a likeness, a reflection, I would undertand what everything was about. the transitory nature of images and time And time was stopped for a moment and for that moment there I was.

Yet another discovery

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Louisville 1974

Rediscovery

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Marilyn Propp Louisville 1973 I'm remembering, not to go back,  but to look at the present anew.  And I couldn't help thinking, Who was this woman?

New images, finally, after 40 years in a box

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Coming and Going Louisville, 1973 I finally get it, the photographs were (are) an attempt to get to some place deeper, to get in touch with what I didn't know or understand.

grabbing hold of the past and dragging it into the present

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Distorted Self Louisville 1973  I was looking for permission, waiting for someone to come along. I finally realized, I was waiting to give myself permission. 1965- Dead Rattlesnake A suprise photograph.  I remember taking it, but only located the negative today.  

Forceful practice

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The Twins make their way to an Elvis Presley concert,  even though it has been said he left the building,  the twins persist.