February 28th, 2026

“How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs–no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer’s intent–exclude aspects of the moment’s complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time’s continuum.” Sally Mann

“I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.” Sally Mann

“Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-like……. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.” Sally Mann

Today I’m posting artwork only, partly related to recent posts. My artwork is more or less connected with texts that I write, and in some sense I experience the artistic process as including both words and images in a kind of loose dialogue. Along with these mixed media images I’ve included a few quotes by Sally Mann, an American photographer, whose book, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, I’m reading at the moment.