WORKING NOTES, Sari Broner:
I took the photos of my hand and the apples and the coast of
Maine almost twenty years ago. I'd taken and developed many
rolls of black and white film of that beautiful coastline, a lily
pond, state fair and made contact sheets, but never printed them.
I'd had it in mind for years to print them and did a couple weeks
ago when thinking about "A Translation of Spaces"-- the theme of
HOW2's first issue. How curious to see photos of myself young, thin,
and shy. Somehow it made this time of staying still more possible --
seeing how vulnerable I looked then. There were pictures of my father
in his studio, cutting mats in his precise, graceful way. An old
boyfriend, smoking a cigar, reading the racing form. I'd wanted to use the
photos of the lily pond in the frame of the pelvis but they weren't
distinct enough
from each other to be meaningful. I've made several copies of the x-ray
and will try a series.
I've had to work on it bit-by-bit -- the positive of the x-ray is mine; a
swollen disk and displaced sciatic nerve has kept me mostly on my back
for a few weeks. I have to plan each little trip to photolab or xerox
store. Standing for more than ten minutes is no good -- sitting for more
than half an hour isn't good either. It's nothing permanent, only painful
if I overdo, and a little "nerve wracking."go to this issue's table of contents
