“I had come to see the roll of film or the contact sheet, or stack of prints, as the essential photographic object. I also saw still photographs as related to cinema, virtually embodying ideas of time and space. I began using a movie camera [to portray] mini narratives, events evolving over time, conflicting narratives and codes.

The simplest form of narrative, repetition, is central to a work’s narrative . . . there are repetitions of the same object . . . both a sense of time and of extended temporality. The picture creates a temporal dimension as well as a syntactical one. There is, perhaps obviously, a great emphasis place on the idea of the viewer as a type of reader, as the photo attempts to create meaning independent of subject matter, reflecting more of the process of thought and evolution and metamorphosis of meaning rather than the actual occurrences.”

– Carl Toth, hand-written notes, undated