Mexico 2666
While traveling in Mexico recently, I read 2666, Roberto Bolano’s unforgettable novel, a work of horror and cosmic uncertainty. Looking at photographs from my travels, I wondered if Bolano’s stories haunted my images.
The images in this project, Mexico 2666, share some qualities of my previous work, particularly Saskatchewan: Uncommon Views -- emptiness and a certain melancholy longing. Yet, the humour and quiet hopefulness of Saskatchewan is missing in Mexico 2666.
“The whole world is a coincidence,” writes Bolano, “a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in monstrousness.” Putting Bolano’s words to my images may be coincidence, or maybe not.