• "Memory is an act of redemption. What has been remembered has been saved from nothingness. What has been forgotten has been abandoned."
• - John Berger,
  About Looking

SO & SO INK

narratives, essays and visual books

The mysterious Hopewell Indians (1000 BC-AD 600) left a memory image in Southern Ohio, a few miles from my ranch style house on Danville Pike, where I grew up. The Great Serpent Mound is a quarter mile long earthwork, a coiled snake with a spiral tail, expelling (or swallowing) an egg (or an eye). Archeologists wonder.

The word "story" goes back to the root "to see." A memory is a vision, an oracle, an eye-egg. Who were those four-foot people who created the snake and egg above Brush Creek in Southern Ohio? What were they communicating twenty centuries ago? Memory has enormous presence.

Narrative Non-fiction
rich mix of academic research, oral history, and Soul Story methods

Words & Images
visual books

Monographs
essays on art and politics