When I’m at home, as now, trying to organize hard drives and planning future shoots, I continue to at least photograph something every day. In this case Dasha, who is spending most of her day trying to work on my drives, doubles as a model for my ongoing BeachGames book. Working on an esoteric and subjective body of work is very different than shooting an editorial assignment where the theme is pretty much determined my the magazine. BeachGames is about fantasy and play on the surface and yet will have a non linear message underlying the “game”. To think about making a puzzle is exactly the opposite of the journalistic attempt to be didactic. First off, it’s way easier to fail. Anytime you push boundaries you are also set to fail. Yet anytime you are not set to fail, you cannot possibly grow. So my interpretation of beach games goes on. I will most likely finish by spring. No rush to publish syndrome. It takes time and stopping and starting and re thinking and tossing and turning to get things right. Even after a year and a half of shooting BeachGames, I could still kill it. I’ve killed projects that I worked on for years. In the meantime I’m enjoying the game of shooting the game. We will see how it plays out ..