As an extension of the mountaineering series, I photographed hundreds of steps through the rainforests of Puerto Rico.  Finally, I reduced the images from this section of El Yunque, to three sets of two.  Two steps are beautiful on their own, but the six suggests the continual process of stepping into consciousness again and again and again.

Printed on high gloss photo paper, the best quality that Kinkos has, usually suited for advertising and family photos, this process will only last for a year.  As in much of the Moment work, the process questions what we choose to consider as significant moments that we want to remember, record.  By printing them large, using the one year process, a shift in the social photographic purpose of personal photograpy is exposed. For forty dollars, one can have their "moment" magnified through reproduction as a poster ­ though these objects are only guaranteed to last up to one year.  Presumably we will then have another moment of significance that will take over that other moment both in our memory and on our wall. Material and cultural values are connected.  For better or worse, what we value today we may no longer find suitable for tomorrow. In an age of rapid change and growth, reality as we know it can be recorded for less than a year at a time, replaced again and again as if the past never existed.  

The feet step out of the darkness into the light.  They do so again.  And again.  Nothing is fixed.  Awareness is contextually and materially fleeting.  I plan to re-print these same images, once a year, to further demonstrate the ephemeralness of our experience and intentions.