Mid October

Train of Moods

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”

 

 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early October

 “The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle

Blue Highway

Blue Highway "Through the Window of a Train"

Looking Out, Looking In

PROJECT INTRODUCTION:

I teach art in Los Angeles and have been living in San Luis Obispo since July. Once a week I commute to each way by train on the Amtrak Surfliner.  This project is an attempt to capture and document my journey with photographs, mental wanderings and train trivia.  

I enjoy the 'snap-shot' like quality that happens as when I use my point and shoot Cannon camera (for example, the reflections and blurring of the foreground, etc.).  Taking photos on every ride functions not only as a travel log, but an observation of the changing landscape over a nine month period of time.  This spatial-temporal study is a montage of a year of my life looking out of a train window.