Ricochet
Violence is a handiwork. Someone made it with their hands. The bullet is the finger that pulled
the trigger. It touches many things on its trajectory, its story written in a blind instant. All
possible configurations of guilt and innocence occur. But this work isn't about that.
How can our forensics account for what never was? Violence reverberates through the lives
touching the lives that it touches, and on like a web. It changes all of us. That irrevocable
alteration in the possible futures which might have been -- that's the real ricochet.
The guns in this series were used in violent crimes and impounded by the Atlanta Police
Department. Each image began at the Department’s headquarters, was made once, was torn, and
then became something similar, but irrevocably different, in a process-trajectory which mirrors
the reverberation of violence through our communities. The wet-plate collodion process and
solarization invoke the human residue which will always cover these guns. This work is a
protest.