THE WORK 

story(noun): an account of incidents or events; a statement regarding the facts pertinent to a situation in question; anecdote; especially : an amusing one - Merriam-Webster

Everyone has one; some get told, some get lost, some die with their keeper. 

My passion is preserving those whose tales are the legacy. 

I raise up the artist who silently shaped the world, the elder whose generation is the last to remember and the witness to miracles or atrocities. 

A Life as a Body of Work

When the account is a whole life, it is rarely one book or one film. It is many expressions, arriving in their own time. The work moves in three registers, often simultaneously.

writer (noun): one that writes especially as a business or occupation. — sitting with the person whose life is the account and rendering it into language. The memoir. The biography. The sentences that guide the reader’s journey.

producer (noun): supervising works for exhibition or dissemination to the public. — recognizing the many vessels a life story can inhabit. The body of work as a sustainable vision: podcast, documentary, film, exhibition, books…

curator (noun): from Latin cūrāre — to take care. — finding and then holding the artifacts that tell the tale - Photographs, diaries, recordings, the tangible items of a life that exist in perpetuity.

These are not steps in a process, they work in unison to create a legacy. The writer renders what the witness remembers. The curator finds the photograph to aid the words in painting the picture. The producer carries them into a form for world engagement— a podcast episode, a documentary, a book, an exhibition, a master class. 

Each part strengthens the whole. A memoir without the artifacts loses its evidence. An archive without language stays silent. A podcast without either is just a voice. Together they become an entire body of work — many expressions of one life, each holding a partial definition of the whole.

What’s YOUR Story?