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A Friend of Mine Once Told me A Story ...

10/6/2015

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The Echo Collector

As the sun went down on the night of the seventeenth of February, my friend took a boat, a fishing trawler, and set out to cross the ocean from Ireland to Cornwall.

He did not know how to sail and he was alone.

He told me that he was no longer in control of his own destiny, that something else guided him that night and that he no longer cared if he lived or died.

While he was at sea, he claimed to have been visited by a woman whose presence, though it soothed him, gave him no rest.

Nobody but he ever knew for sure what happened that night on the ocean, but afterwards, when I visited the boat, I listened while he told me his tale.

Years later, I created these images.
They are my memory of his memory.
An echo of an echo.
Not to be trusted.

But now that they are finished I finally understand that the woman in the story is me.

But I did not steer the ship that day.

He did.
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