The
first impressions - front to front, face to face, eye ball to eye
ball,
forward
to forward - introduces us to the person who is most assuredly doing
the same to us: checking us out. A ‘measuring up’ of the other
person to see what they are made of. All walks of life do this.
Humans do this to make sure, yes, to judge whether they want to
continue the visit or just move on. Animals do it, more likely from
afar, yes, to judge again, to determine whether the other animal is
well-fed and just passing by or.... First impressions can mean
everything, and whether our judgments of these impressions are
correct can be life altering.
You
go, I go, we all go. We all are one and went and are on the move. We
left here to go there and went there to go elsewhere or to come back
‘here’
again. You came here from somewhere like I did. I will go somewhere
from here as you will. Most likely you were somewhere else before you
were here and picked up this picture-book and started viewing my
images. And whether you judge in my favor of my picture book, ‘Backs
Forward’ will find it’s way to your home and be the 'coffee table
book’ it was intended to be.
Whether
we are at work, at play or somewhere that’s nobody’s business, we
will have left and had to turn our backs. Still there’s always a
trail, our tracks, our fragrance, our legacy, our afterthought, or
our after-image that is left behind. After this, after the initial
view, after the front to front, face to face, the forward to forward,
is what caught my eye. The back. After the brief encounter, the
interlude, the chat, or even just a glance, or a minor brush with
someone, in any case and any situation, it is when the backs are
turned is what caught my eye, what ‘fired off’ my shutter. What
one would see after the turn, or giving the other person a second
glance, or a second chance, would be the
Backs
Forward.
“It
is not for whom my photographs are of,
for they are taken of thee.” -JR Hager
for they are taken of thee.” -JR Hager
