[our Self-image Is] That Gap Between Intention

Photography Was A License To Go Wherever I Wanted And To Do What I Wanted To Do.

If The Fall Of Man Consists In The Separation Of God And The Devil The Serpent Must Have Appeared Out Of The Middle Of The Apple When Eve Bit Like The Original Worm In It, Splitting It In Half And Sundering Everything Which Was Once One Into A Pair Of Opposites, So The World Is Noah's Ark On The Sea Of Eternity Containing All The Endless Pairs Of Things, Irreconcilable And Inseparable, And Heat Will Always Long For Cold And The Back For The Front And Smiles For Tears And Mutt For Jeff And No For Yes With The Most Unutterable Nostalgia There Is.

Freaks Was A Thing I Photographed A Lot. It Was One Of The First Things I Photographed And It Had A Terrific Kind Of Excitement For Me. I Just Used To Adore Them. I Still Do Adore Some Of Them. I Don't Quite Mean They're My Best Friends But They Made Me Feel A Mixture Of Shame And Awe.

Everybody Has That Thing Where They Need To Look One Way But They Come Out Looking Another Way And That's What People Observe.

And The Revelation Was A Little Like What Saints Receive On Mountains - A Further Chapter In The History Of The Mystery.