Selective Focus: Impermanence

Aaron Reichow

Aaron Reichow, untitled

My grandpa Mohrbacher moved to Duluth in 1928 and was a tenant at the Traphagen home, which was gutted by arson the week before I arrived here. I was lamenting this loss to a sauerkraut maker I’d met at a cider pressing who told me he’d lived there in the 70s when the home became the Redstone Apartments, and that he had some interior photos. They were beautiful. I could picture my grandpa in the same sun room, occupied by a new friend over 50 years later.

This experience, and numerous other odd coincidences has persuaded me to Nietzsche’s theory of eternal recurrence — that impermanence may be an illusion. This comforts me greatly, the thought that maybe somehow we live within currents and eddies of time, affecting people we will never meet, or have without realizing our connectedness; that more than plodding linearly to our end there exists this possibility that time could be circular. We make journeys in reverse, find sympathetic homes where our forebears once lived long after leaving for other destinations to raise my mother. Who’s to say, right?

Leaving proto-existentialism behind, next week’s theme will be “tangible:” things close at hand, within reach, readily grasped, and ordinary. Send your unwatermarked, signature-less images by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m to tim @ perfectduluthday.com — 1000px at their largest dimension — along with title (if any), and URL of your website, Facebook page, Tumblr, or Flickr stream.

Aaron Reichow

Aaron Reichow, untitled

John O'Neill

John O’Neill, untitled

John O'Neill

John O’Neill, untitled

Emily Rose

Emily Rose, untitled

Zach Kerola

Zach Kerola, untitled

Zach Kerola

Zach Kerola, untitled

Hattie Peterson

Hattie Peterson, untitled

Hattie Peterson

Hattie Peterson, untitled

Abby Schaefer

Abby Schaefer, untitled

Abby Schaefer

Abby Schaefer, untitled

Elden Lindamood

Elden Lindamood, untitled

Brian Barber

Brian Barber, untitled

Tim White

Tim White, “Herring chip”

Paul Schonfeld

Paul Schonfeld, untitled

Tim White

Tim White, “Traphagen”

4 Comments

Herzog

about 9 years ago

Tim just formulated the most awesomest thought I think I've ever seen here.  Trying to recall what beats it and I'm comin up empty.  No, the blue dressed blond sliding across the Owl bar, that was better. Tim's thought was great, but she was transcendental.

Tim White

about 9 years ago

I'd like to see this blond from the Owls, and thanks.

Paul Lundgren

about 9 years ago

I'll get to work tracking down that Unnur video. It was posted on PDD in January 2013 and removed from YouTube shortly after.

Paul Lundgren

about 9 years ago

Update: I'm told the video will be posted again soon.

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