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“A Note to the Viewer
This book is divided into three separate parts: The photographs, the photographic chronology and the text. The
advantages of this format is to give you, the viewer, at least three options. You can proceed chronologically from the
beginning of the book to the end, thereby grasping the artist’s full intent to inform, entertain and intrigue. Or you may
casually thumb through the book spotting only those details that give meaning to each piece. Or you may flip the pages
rapidly just to get a bird’s eye view of the content. Or perhaps, you may discover some aspects of the book that we
overlooked altogether.
Nevertheless no matter what option a viewer chooses to take, it is our desire that each of you get so close to the piece
that you see the smoke from its breath as it comes alive.
Noah Purifoy
April, 1997”