Based on Alfred Stieglitz’s Equivalents, this body of work was made throughout my partner’s cancer treatments. Like Stieglitz’s photographs, the images are focused on the sky, occasionally including branches or the tops of buildings at the edges of the frame. Several of the images look remarkably like the medical imaging required to diagnose tumors; the errant birds, airplanes, and helicopters that occasionally appear throughout the frame are similar to fiducial markers, placed at the time of biopsy to mark the locations of tumors. The images were made with my phone, often on the way to or from treatments, and always while thinking of her. “One day at a time” was the advice we were given shortly after her diagnosis. These images served to remind me through this process that, although it may have felt like the sky was falling, it remained there through every difficult day.
