Surrealistic Concerns
I was photographing people near Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn when this envelope caught my eye.
I looked at it for a long time before I photographed it. I was wondering to myself why it held such interest for me.
It was a traditional, simple commercial envelope. It was stained, which made it more personal. It lay in the grass and it was not the kind of thing that cried out to be photographed for its own identity.
But, for me, it was a surrealistic image, an improbable relationship of events. It raises more questions than it answers and that’s a wonderful thing.
It has a totemic quality far beyond its apparent simplicity.
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