Week 35 of 209 Weeks: “I care about you because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.” —June Jordan Photo Notes: Chicago, December 2023

Week 34 of 209 Weeks: “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” —Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Photo Notes: Chicago, December 2023

Week 33 of 209 Weeks: “We’re exploring the possibility of building a wall to stem the exodus.” “Don’t be ridiculous,” Goddard said, “only idiots build walls.” –Neal Shusterman, The Toll Photo Notes: Chicago, December 2023

Week 32 of 209 Weeks: Polish your own corner of the world. Photo Notes: I have no idea where this was taken.

Week 31 of 209 Weeks: “The morning is wiser than the evening.” –Vasilia the Beautiful Photo Notes: Photographing a black cat on a white blanket is a fool’s errand! Louie, date unrecorded.

Week 30 of 209 Weeks: “With a new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” –Eleanor Roosevelt Photo Notes: This photo was taken at William O’Brien State Park on January 1st, 2022.

Week 29 of 209 Weeks: Be brave, Silence is sustenance, drawing (the artistic act) the heart open, be gentle with those you cherish (especially yourself). Photo Notes: I feel like the footsteps and the tent (?) on the lake say it all.

Week 28 of 209 Weeks: “I can do anything for [specified amount of time]. You can do anything for [specified length of time].” Photo Notes: This photo was taken using x-ray film. The film gives everything a soft light. Taken May 2025.

Week 27 of 209 Weeks: “And I thought to myself: No, this world is not a joke, not a vale of ordeal only and a passage to a better world, but one of the eternal worlds, which is good, joyful, and which we not only can, but must make finer and more joyful for those…

Week 26 of 209 Weeks: “Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain.” –Dave Matthews Band, “Two Step” Photo Notes: This photo was taken on a special type of x-ray film. The film has a soft, diffuse light look. Taken in May 2025.