Like a segment of Tangerine

Like a segment of tangerine is a line taken from a book I read when my son turned one years old. It was called Teaching a Stone to Talk, by Annie Dillard. In the book she talks about the experience of watching an eclipse with her partner. Sitting a top a rock with strangers off the side of a road in a shared event. Within she describes the strange sensation of witnessing the end and the beginning of something. A total eclipse of the sun.

I too felt this. Being born to some new world. The slow progression of change. The sanguine yellow and the oddness of all color you thought you knew to be true. The body and the way it feels. Off. Looking at someone you love and not recognizing them for the silver skin that drapes over their limbs. Then just as slowly as it came, the wonder and the malaise begin to lift. To recognize the sweet and the familiar once again.

This work made with my son and my father, from two different experiences. August 21, 2017 eclipse paired with the April 8, 2024 eclipse using a polaroid land camera that used to belong to my grandmother.