Commissioned to not only put a past life, but also a future life, into images really pushed my imagination into new realms. I decided that creating a timeline which would move from the background to the foreground would serve my purpose best.

Starting from what appears farthest away to that appearing closest would put this biography in chronological order according to geography.  Arkansas would be farthest from the viewer, Idaho next, then northwestern Washington state and finally Arizona. Arizona would be in the future, so to speak, because the subject of this biography had not yet moved there when this piece was being planned.

In a life there are many symbolically important things beyond the important places.

See if you can find the John Deere tractor, hawk, bi-plane, the University of Washington Huskie, fly fisherman, the grandma greeting her grandchildren and the lakes that are also trout.

 

Thank you to the Hood brothers for the opportunity to create this piece!