Fermata
Fermata.
A written journal of long conversations, with one word per issue. Issue I is Restraint.
Issue I / Restraint
Conversation 04

I used to think a cut was something you lose.
Conversations
Issues
Pictures
Rooms after the conversation, windows, a chair left out, a sheet of contacts with one frame circled. Where a person appears they are turned away, at work, or only a shadow. Scroll sideways.

The Room After, 5:47 pm

Arches, after the last visitor

Gallery, one lamp

Window

Cyanotype, drying

Courtyard, one window lit

Contact sheet, one frame circled

Bookshop, rain
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