WHAT TIME LEAVES

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo 1970

Rebuilding my website forced me to look at the work differently.

When images are rearranged and placed in relation to one another, patterns become clearer. Some concerns feel recent. Others were there from the beginning. Distance has a way of revealing structure.

In that process, I returned to a set of photographs I made when I was ten years old in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, using my Petri 35mm rangefinder. At the time, I did not fully understand what I was seeing. I only knew that the space felt suspended. Silent. Preserved.

The negatives now carry their own history. Scratches. Fading. Glue stuck to the emulsion from the sleeves. Time has marked the surface as surely as the subjects themselves.

They appear on the site under What Time Leaves.

Please note that this series contains photographs of preserved human remains.

Looking at them again decades later, I recognized that the question of what remains has been present in my work far longer than I understood. It was there before I had language for it. In different ways, each of the series returns to that tension. What stays visible. What is withheld. What time alters but does not erase.

Preservation is never complete. Memory shifts. Surfaces change. What remains is not fixed. It is marked.

Reworking the site did not create that concern. It revealed it.