These are pictures of my wife, Bebe and her three sisters. The first picture was just made on a weekend when I was with my in-laws. I'd been married four years. The woman on the left is Heather. Heather was 23, Mimi was 15 Bebe was 25 and Laurie was 21. It didn't really get serious until the next year. The year of Laurie, the woman on the right's, college graduation. And that's when I took the second one. And on a whim said, let's do it in the same order. So it was having two pictures in my hand, and the year space between them that gave me the idea that it would be really interesting to do it forever. And so I asked them if we could and they all laughed at me and said, sure. We joke about it, but everybody knows that certainly my intention would be that we would go on forever no matter what. To just take three and then two and then one. The joke question is, what happens if I go in the middle? I think we'll figure that out when the time comes. I really try hard to make the pictures as interesting, formally, as I possibly can. One of my clear visual tricks is that I like open sky because I love to see the shapes of their heads and and I like to play around with the intervals in between them. I take probably a dozen each year and they tell me what their favorites are and what they dislike but then I chose. I try to be as open with what they say is possible, in fact, I love to know what they think. Being an only child, it was really gratifying and lovely to be embraced by this family. There's still a groundwater of affection and support. And I look back at these pictures, and it's like they're of my sisters. I can feel myself getting old with them and I'm part of them. They're part of my love.
