Tonight, I'm here to talk about the cover photograph on the new edition of the Time & Place chapbook. Thank you to Ed Shaw and Nancy Benoy for continuing to put this publication together. I am honoured to be on the cover of this, the tenth issue, and further touched because it is the last time the edition-launch night will be held here at Homegrown cafe before their move to a new location. I've always been drawn to photographs. I like the detail they carry. Photographs can say--or, more accurately, provide access to--so much information about a time and a place. For instance, this photograph I made for the cover is evidence that at this time, in this place, Homegrown existed in this location on King William Street. But that's thinking of photographs as objects. I would like, instead, to think of this picture as an event. In the future, the near future, this place will move. At that time, this photograph will have a future that will become a part of the picture's story. In fact, that future was already a part of the photograph when it was made; actually, even before the picture was completed. How so? Nancy approached me about a month ago to see if I had time to make a photo for the cover. Maybe she planned this, or maybe it came to her as she talked about the ideal location that Homegrown has been for their launch-night events. She asked that the photograph for the cover be of this place. And, of course, she wanted the picture as soon as possible…time was of the essence.
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