Size: 7.5” x 7.5” on 8.5” x 11”

Signed & stamped in verso

The power of symbols is strong. Standing at the base of Lincoln, looking down the length of the reflecting pool you can feel it. You can feel the struggles that have gone into making this a more perfect union. It was a warm summer evening and I was here for the first time. I wasn’t feeling current events. Earlier in the week I had a communal lunch at an old Quaker farm and had seen the house my ancestors had lived in over 200 years earlier. This evening was the culmination of those experiences.

If you’ve ever walked around the Mall in Washington DC at night you know how brilliant these monuments light up at night. Their white marble facades shine like democratic parables of an ideal we continually try to aspire to, but may never reach. And maybe that sounds too righteous, after all several of these memorials are to slave owning men. But it’s not just to the men these represent, it’s to their ideals even if they themselves couldn’t live up to them in their own time.

Location: Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC

Technical Info: Hasselblad, Zeiss 50mm, Kodak T-Max 100 BW Film, N+1 developed in Kodak X-tol 1:1