BASKETBALL REAWAKENING

A book to tell myself, first of all, what I cannot see but I feel like the ‘Mystery of Basketball’. All I had to do was stand to the side of the court and try to give it a visible face. I began to search within myself for words and visual images that could tell the hidden story. Task that I thought was impossible. Although writing may be easier for me because of my age and experience, it was still very difficult to give visual reality to a feeling.

Magnifying those quiet, private moments of intimacy, or lack of. I like to take those small, seemingly subtle, unimportant moments and make them feel very grand and important. Body language and knowing eyes, always seemingly looking at something beyond the edges of the basketball court, suggest interiority, complexity and a life that continues once the viewer has moved on.