Completed in sequence in early 2016, Two Winters Long is comprised entirely of images created within the 2015 winter season. Originally begun as a separate project while working in Cambodia teaching art at an NGO to orphans, the images were soon collected and sequenced together with others created throughout the same season in New York, Los Angeles, Tijuana, San Francisco, San Ysidro, Oahu and Scranton. Relating to the multiple losses of life endured over the winter season, the title, Two Winters Long, serves to engage in the aspect of time and how one winter in Cambodia bled into multiple others at different locales- a sort of season of memory and the simultaneous burden and relief that comes with the loss of life. Threaded throughout the entire project is a longing from someone acknowledging the knowledge only understood when one has endured enough; a melancholy knowing that love, although infinite in its intangible manner, will eventually expire when combined with that deceptively delicate other half that is the physical.
An artist book produced by SSK Press to accompany the project debuted in the Focus:Photography section at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles for the 2016 LA Art Book Fair.
For Gloria who taught me to laugh, Rosie who taught me to love and Rode who taught me to live.
Gloria C. Jaworski
Dec. 23, 1932 - Oct. 4, 2015
Rosalinda “Rosie” Choe
Apr. 8, 2007 - Nov. 25, 2015
Rode Antonio Montijo
Dec. 11, 2015 - Dec. 15, 2015
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