What Was Then (fill in the blank) Is Now (fill in the blank)... Work In Progress 2017-Present

Beginning with the photograph in Cambodia, the one with the Killing Tree in Phnom Penh, this series contrasts and explores the original intent of a place with your individual current experience.

With The Killing Tree for example, this now famous landmark of Cambodian history has a vibrant beauty of pain and love embodying its trunk through hundreds of colorful bracelets visitors leave. Memories hard to forget but necessary to remember, this place is where children were clubbed to death during the Cambodian Genocide. Beaten against the tree and then thrown into a mass grave beside its roots, the bracelets left on its branches symbolize love for those who have been lost and remembrance of a time not yet lost to history.

The chaotic motion blur of the image takes you into a place of confusion to disassociate you from any pre-embodied idea of what you would feel seeing the location as a static image.  Through examination you find something new to appreciate - colors or atmosphere of what you are now experiencing.  New details become recognizable the longer you bathe in the image and now you appreciate the image for a whole new meaning you discovered for yourself.  You found ways to fill in the blanks of what was subconsciously being uncovered.