Vanishing Bainbridge
For the past thirty years, since calling Bainbridge Island my
new home, I've been trying to grow roots. Towards this, I've been photographing and collecting words from various
perspectives of Island life, always culminating in presentations like this
one.
This latest body of work explores the history of Bainbridge
Island through the built environment. It
is highly personal and selective. The exhibit is composed mostly of older homes
that are still in use, repurposed, or in disrepair. All of them come with stories of Island lives
and history.
These minor histories are often forgotten. Some might have been passed down to relatives
or heard by neighbors, but they often change by omissions, embellishments, and
the vagaries of memory. There are many
blank spaces to fill in, an invitation to use one's imagination and curiosity
to see Bainbridge Island through the lens of past lives and the built
environment they inhabited.
Joel Sackett
