EXCERPT FROM THE INTERVIEW

I remember feeling that the air raid drills of my childhood were in such contrast to a more creative path. The reality of the drill, the dog tags, fear; there had to be an antithesis. But how could you reconcile the possibility of complete annihilation with your aspiration toward things of beauty? A notion of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson representing two sides of everything became apparent to me: the interior, the exterior, the cultural intervention of Whitman and the hermetic intervention of Dickinson… yet we still need to find more imaginative language and recognize the many languages that exist simultaneously within our own. Photo by Star Black