At birth, we become captives of the cultures and societies into which we are born. And, since old enough to form a thought, I have held that, like a prisoner of war, I should be ever on the lookout for routes of escape.

In this spirit, The Search for Truth Mission visually embeds various of my forays into enemy territory in photographic code, illustrating various states of mind I have inhabited at one time or another on sundry missions of transgressive scouting and exploration. 

In synch with this idea, and as we grapple with the contradictory role that visual language is playing in our society today, The Search for Truth Mission’s images also explore, from an escapees point of view, the shape-shifting no man’s land expanding in between the analog and digital topographies of the twenty-first century.

Summoned up like delirious last words, veiled threats, and lost chances from the digitally hand-sliced-and-diced residue of 20th century photographs, they have been sourced, debriefed, and reimagined from the permissions-free dustbins of the Library of Congress of the United States.