Silkville, Kansas 2

Photographs are silent, yet they speak volumes. Such a vague and ambiguous statement leads me on. What does the blind man see? Is it possible to see something without knowing it? Greek plays are full of blind seers who see and the tragic mistakes of those who fail to take their advice. Seeing is for…

Silkville, Kansas

We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Prospero from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I, lines 168 – 170.   These lines might have been a fitting comment for Ernest Valeton de Boissière (1811 – 1894) a Frenchman who dreamed of establishing a…