“The Passage of Time” is an ongoing series of portraits of older people whom I’ve met in my life’s travels, some close to home and some in briefer encounters abroad. All have shared with me aspects of their life stories that show their resilience, struggles, and valor in facing the future.
Gheorghe Marinca, Timisoara, Romania , tells me about life during communist times – the control, the surveillance, the lack of hope.
Hugo & Aurora, Cuernavaca, Mexico are artist friends whom I’ve known since my early twenties. Recently their lives have been affected by the drug violence and the incursion of troops in this once peaceful town.
Dorothy tells me her life stories as an artist, founder of an outdoor sculpture park and many travels with her young husband. She says that even artists and intellectuals grow old.
Hattie wants to learn to play a harp so that she can do a performance on the roof of the housing project where she grew up. It was home to several generations of her family, which will soon be slated for demolition.
Alice, a long time widow in a hamlet in upstate New York, shows me where she will be buried.
