For the November Project in 1997 I decided to use a regular-sized Polaroid camera. I guess I was thinking about this project more seriously and about what I was trying to say with the project, if anything. First of all, my art practice had been energized in the summer by a two-week residency at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck Michigan, where I had been working on collography prints. Second of all, in the past year as a graduate assistant at the Kresge Art Museum I had delved deeper into photography theory and was questioning the meaning of the definition and its history. I was also starting to have my work included in some regional group exhitions.
Nevertheless, the November Project 1997 was alot about nostalgia and memory. Many of the subjects had been seen before and I now saw that there was only one more year left in the project, at least according to the way it had been conceived. I could sense a value in this project as it was no longer just an art project for a project's sake. Of course I did not know at that time what the project meant, but that was never the point anyway.
Nevertheless, the November Project 1997 was alot about nostalgia and memory. Many of the subjects had been seen before and I now saw that there was only one more year left in the project, at least according to the way it had been conceived. I could sense a value in this project as it was no longer just an art project for a project's sake. Of course I did not know at that time what the project meant, but that was never the point anyway.
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