16 BUS RIDES

I started by capturing my day-to-day life on instagram. Going to and from work on the bus, cataloging each bus ride, documenting the number of the bus, the direction, and the time of travel. After a time I became aware of how mundane  my life seemed. 28 years of taking public transportation to the same job. I decided to take pictures myself within the bus. Bearing in mind how the pictures were archived in Instagram (4 across back then) I would create a portrait of Myself. One that would appear still, yet be moving through time. After 16 bus rides, a self portrait was made. It became a small documentation of myself, moving through time and space, in 16 fleeting bus rides out of thousands. Though, I look rather bold in this orange jumpsuit, when you do the math of all the bus rides I have taken. it was really just a blip in time.

On the jumpsuit I wore were the words I AM HERE, taken from an old slogan I heard as a pre teen,"You are here, be here now".  It came from a book my sister had called Remember Be Here Now, by Ram Dass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)