This image and story were created in a tryptic fashion. The projector, the interpreter, the provenance. The young boy in the story is the projector in that it (the projector) has a function, but no understanding - it just does.  The boy is simply doing what he does - accepting what is around him as life. The interpreter, a man in his 20’s, who is left with the task of managing and making sense of everything - trying to use it to his advantage. The interpreter is represented by the person in the center of the image. In that monument, he is looking into the future which he is blinded by (or that he has turned his back on the past). The Native people (the film on the screen) represents the provenance of nature. And now, for the first time as an old man, he is comfortable, and he recognizes or is aware of his gifts. He accepts the world around him for what it is and the part he played. 

The format of the image (pano) was an intentional effort to demonstrate the passage and portions of time in life. Never-ending in the beginning and then compressed in the end. The negative space in the center of the image represents the vast period of life that is spent unaware, and “in the dark”. 

Projector, Interpreter, Provenance.