This photograph is not simply a record—it is a surface of encounters, a folding of time that resists linear chronology. Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, holds a rice winnowing basket as she gestures toward an intimate yet vast world. Her gaze does not anchor us in the past; rather, it opens perceptual fields where memories become immemorial—not forgotten, but beyond recollection, diffused across generations and sensed through communal bodies.
This image invites us into an experience of indeterminate perception—a seeing that is also a touching, a sensing that cannot be fully contained by language but arrives through interpretations. It dwells within the thresholds of the visible and the invisible. The basket, the hands, the slight tilt of her body offer sensuous traces of lived/ing knowingness, held in the intentionalities of gestures and forms.

Distance and Time, 2002
Archival print on cotton fibers
20" x 30"