I. A paper base.

i. Be gentle with the salted fibers, the photo processes as they lie in wait, left sodden and incomplete.

ii. The shoes that sit in silent air.

iii. Held together by their trodden backs, their tread filled with corporeal intention.

iv. Waiting for a bus, a friend – a fit.

 

II. A white opaque coating of gelatin, barium sulfate creating a smooth surface.

v. Posed against the backdrop of dreams worn into concrete, etched into the city bench by frozen passerby.

vi. Did he leave the shoes to sit and rot, on the cast iron fence of permanence?

vii. A word, a phrase, a name, a self portrait of the invisible.

 

III. A gelatin layer holding the silver photographic grains.

viii. The man is invisible.

ix. The man is visible to all, in the steps taken, in the actions, in being left behind.

 

IV. A protective gelatin overcoat.

x. The shoes, silent and solid. In the realness of time, held by the intention of Movement.