Harry Finch

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A reservoir sits blue among mountains flush with green to the water's edge.
A river comes off the mountains, pouring over a 10 foot fall of ledge into a very fine swimming hole. The ledges look nearly crafted, creating an amphitheater quality.
B/W view of a back lot in a small city where cars are parked, with the usual grim countenance.
Long thinning clouds feeling dawn on their bellies as they pass slowly over low mountains and valley meadows.
'A silver flare sails briefly over the streets, bits of incandescence trailing away. Radio voices calling all around her. Beirut, Beirut. They crowd in toward her, pressing with a mournful force. People calling from basement shelters, faces in shadow, clothing going dark with heavy sweat, sleeping children curled around their war toys. All the hostages, pray for them stashed in their closets and toilets. All the babies, pray for them lying in rag hammocks. All the refugees, pray for their dead and wait for the shelling to subside. The war is so fucking simple. It is the lunar part of us that dreams of wasted terrain. She hears their voices calling across the leveled city. Our only language is Beirut.' - Don DeLillo, Mao II 'A silver flare sails briefly over the streets, bits of incandescence trailing away. Radio voices calling all around her. Beirut, Beirut. They crowd in toward her, pressing with a mournful force. People calling from basement shelters, faces in shadow, clothing going dark with heavy sweat, sleeping children curled around their war toys. All the hostages, pray for them stashed in their closets and toilets. All the babies, pray for them lying in rag hammocks. All the refugees, pray for their dead and wait for the shelling to subside. The war is so fucking simple. It is the lunar part of us that dreams of wasted terrain. She hears their voices calling across the leveled city. Our only language is Beirut.' - Don DeLillo, Mao II
B/W photo of back of city building. The building is white and has a power pole close by with lines along the width of the structure. Along these real power lines primates of some type have been painted to make it look like they are swinging on vines.
B/W photo of a cat peering out from tall grasses and weeds.
B/W photo of a hospital stairwell with a window on the landing that reveals the entrance to the building.
A view across a cornfield, ringed by trees, to the distant mountains waking up.
B/W view of a gathering of people in a public park. They are silhouettes against the sky as they stand about picnic tables and grills.
A river flows away from an unseen falls, smoothing out and slipping past legdes busy with pine and hemlock.
Three story brick building housing a laundromat with the words 'wash, dry,fold' on the window in white.
Tall switchgrass at the water's edge along a pond.
A side street, sandwiched between brick buildings, opens onto a stone Episcopal church.
Two clusters of farm outbuildings gather around a power pole on a rise of tall green grass.
B/W photo of five tennis balls sitting atop a patio umbrella stand, corralled by a metal wagon wheel.
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B/W view from the bottom of an office building, looking skyward. Alternating rows of glass and brick give the illusion of weightlessness.
B/W view of a marina on a large American lake, looking from shore up the passage to the lake.
B/W view of a long running wooden porch attached to a brick building. It has semi-ornate white pillars along its length, as well as attractive railing. From the porch one has a view of a stone office building.
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell."
A concrete water control station sits in great solitude on a moody earthen dam.
O WHAT A WORLD of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do. An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror. Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Photo of a tv stand in disarray from testing an old DVD player. Playing on the TV is Casablanca.
B/W photo of the outside of a glassed in stairway of a hospital. It looks up from the bottom of the rising glass, steel, and cement.
B/W photo of a small city side street, mainly of a building that may have been a business with apartments above.
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A mountain brook flows through an opening in the green forest. Boulders lie like small grey islands.
B/W photo of the interior of a parking garage looking out at the upper level sunshine.
Black and white photo of a human foot with shadows from window blinds falling in horizontal stripes.
A paved car lot, at the back of which sits an old Federal/Victorian style house.
A two track road passes a maple-guarded church cemetery.
A brook slides out of a heavily forested gorge of boulders and ledges into sunlight.
B/W photo of a two level glass and steel hall connecting to a concrete wall.
Looking at the corner of a room where an open doorway leads into a hallway and a second view into another room with white wainscoting.
A young couple lies facedown on a park lawn to catch some z's.
A stone figure of a grieving woman atop a grave marker. The woman is seated, one leg raised for an elbow to rest upon while her face droops onto her knuckles.
Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun
An orange cat lies curled on a white iron daybed, next to a tall dark pump organ, all in a breezeway.
B/W photo focused on the details of the roof corner of a somewhat ornate porch.
B/W photo of an brick garage. 'GARAGE' is in fading paint, while a recent sign reads 'THE GARAGE CULTURAL CENTER.'
The columns of a federal style office building appear through tree foliage.
Black and white of metal gate bars over the windowed door of a closed train station.
Black and white photo of an old industrial chimney close to a marble office building. In the forefront is an abstract sculpture of 2 metal rings. When viewed straight on the rings appear at the base of the chimney.
A wide green field stretches along an unseen river. On the other shore rises a lush green mountain. Four small temporary structures, when compared to the larger scene, sit in a row midfield, either for storage or greenhouses.
A single stalk of milkweed stands in a field, its pods exploded and feathers loosened.
Black and white photo of the Capitol theater. The marquee says, 'Happy 22 Birthday Caitlyn.
Black and white photo of a hospital lobby, with pillars, steel, curving tiers, and glass.
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Black and white photo of a train trestle as viewed from the tracks through its tunnel-like iron frame.
Black and white photo of cemetery stones and vaults with a working farm in the background.
Black and white of a father and small son make adjustments to their bicycle for two in front of the Jericho Center Country Store. The storefront has two gas tanks, a Coca-cola cooler, American flag.
Senator Mitch McConnell in his notorious hospice room photo, grinning like he's on the pineapple express.
A lazy looking river makes a big turn. 1000 greens populate the shorelines.
A marble column rises against a cloudy sky.
A top floor hallway in an industrial Park building. Sunlight enters above from a skylight, casting soft shadows. Discs of light guide your eyes along the hall ceiling into darkness. The walls close in on the lobby, almost aggressively.
Black and white photo of two Adirondack boats, the Redwing and the Maple, dockside.
Wooden posts mark the green and gold farm fields, reaching east to the rising mountains.
View looking up into stairwell in industrial Park building. The white ceiling frames the stairs underbelly in a sort of angular q.
A small river/brook tumbles past ledges.