Can’t Get There From Here (2017). Five years after leaving I was less interested in memorializing a lost world and more in finding an imagery of emotions - struggle, seeking, discovery. The final two pictures, Shut Tight and Last Light, each use a photo from 1963, taken by my father as he and my mother were buying the house, and another from my last visits in fall of 2012. The space between them contains all my time under that roof.
© Ariel Swartley
