Manhattan is the place I call home.. a walking city. As I make my way among that energy each day, checking the city’s rigor is an undefinable uncertainty - a seismic shift in the collective mood. Keep Walking is a visual testament to that frantic ambiance. Using Intentional Camera Movements to project my inner feelings of a myopic inner moment in our society, this series is my quiet call to document these sentiments.
With the photographs in this body of work, and yielding to the uncertainty of our modern times and it’s high swerving political climate, I found myself creatively nudging the margins of exactness, exploring new hues and recalling that color is our universal instrument of hope. In that simple remembering, yellows and blues, purples and greens began to surface as the route for expressing my truth of the moment as I, step by step, move through my beloved city… of New York, NY.
June 2020 Update
As I look at these photos in light of the 2020 pandemic, I think of the frenetic pace of people rushing, exiting, and keeping pace with one another - in contrast with the isolation of today. I think the pause is a reminder to savor every moment. Our time is limited, and mortality is in our thoughts. We must treasure our precious moments.