July 24th, 2010
Day five
Today has been the wildest and most dynamic day I’ve had all week. It’s just before eight o’clock and I’m enjoying the first lull since one-thirty. A lot of my co-workers came by, bring family members and friends, probably close to thirty people in total. I also had a chance to talk passionately about photography to several passers by, doing the best I could to construct Japanese robust enough to suit my granite theories and formulaic processes that build the framework for my photographic method.
My feet are aching and I’ve been sweating constantly for the last seven and a half hours, but it feels wonderful. People have come to support me, with beers and flowers, with smiles and compliments. All of the stress and fatigue is ground into my muscles like pepper worked with raw steak, and the dense moisture of effort, worry, and community laces the humid air. I am fortunate, blessed, exhausted and frazzled. To be honest, I really wouldn’t have it any other way.
