Bench stories

This series of photographs, taken over the course of a day, with a hiatus in the middle (indicated by a black frame), was inspired in part by Rodney Graham's "The System of Landor's Cottage" and his short film and stills of "Coruscating Cinnamon Granules", as well as John Baldessari's 1970s conceptual series of photographs such as of car doors along a street. I suppose there are (2n-1)!! ways n stories might interlink when unfolded in a linear narrative, nested like 1001 Nights, or overlapping, one leading into the next. The arrivals and departures at a bench is a seemingly random realization of such a series of stories, here with some quite complex overlaps, added to which some characters pass by either before or after their main, seated role. Some of the characters are ghostly, and one of them is light.