Ascend/Descend Sept 17, 2016
Image #1 - Ascend/Descend - September 2017
This is an imagining of my September 2016 blackout and crashing descent off the road. I completed this image 14 months later in October/November 2017
For 12 months after my accident I imagined my drive into this ditch - over and over and over again. But I was only ready to visit the site a year after the event. I met and spoke with the woman who had seen my car and called 911, the first savior in this story. I had been prescribed a new medication for a congenital heart condition (HCM) and on the third morning of taking the drug, I experienced sudden cardiac arrest while driving. I was in good shape at the time, swimming laps 4x a week.
The woman who had seen the accident directed me to the location. Climbing down I found where I had been wedged in by trees after I careened off the road. There was evidence of the limbs cut down to free my car. The Wrentham Police and Fire Departments acted brilliantly to get my heart going and evacuate me by helicopter to Boston.
So now, what was I after as I wandered around? I shot photo frames randomly with no sense of what I was looking at. I was nervous and left quickly. What are you doing here Amy?
As I put the piece together I was unable to come to any clear resolution. The last thing I wanted to make was a pretty picture. I had made plenty of those. What I was seeking were answers. But answers to what?
Later, during a group meditation, I tried to visualize my journey with my memory of this site. I kept falling into the darkness at the center of my unfinished collage. This process sparked an unexpected out-of-body response -- this lightening fast manifestation helped me finish the image. And those questions...
One of the frames from this photo shoot accidentally clipped my face as I pointed the camera upwards. I decided to use this shot to represent my presence. I was completely unconscious and was told by my doctors that I had died instantly.
But I was still there.
This is an imagining of my September 2016 blackout and crashing descent off the road. I completed this image 14 months later in October/November 2017
For 12 months after my accident I imagined my drive into this ditch - over and over and over again. But I was only ready to visit the site a year after the event. I met and spoke with the woman who had seen my car and called 911, the first savior in this story. I had been prescribed a new medication for a congenital heart condition (HCM) and on the third morning of taking the drug, I experienced sudden cardiac arrest while driving. I was in good shape at the time, swimming laps 4x a week.
The woman who had seen the accident directed me to the location. Climbing down I found where I had been wedged in by trees after I careened off the road. There was evidence of the limbs cut down to free my car. The Wrentham Police and Fire Departments acted brilliantly to get my heart going and evacuate me by helicopter to Boston.
So now, what was I after as I wandered around? I shot photo frames randomly with no sense of what I was looking at. I was nervous and left quickly. What are you doing here Amy?
As I put the piece together I was unable to come to any clear resolution. The last thing I wanted to make was a pretty picture. I had made plenty of those. What I was seeking were answers. But answers to what?
Later, during a group meditation, I tried to visualize my journey with my memory of this site. I kept falling into the darkness at the center of my unfinished collage. This process sparked an unexpected out-of-body response -- this lightening fast manifestation helped me finish the image. And those questions...
One of the frames from this photo shoot accidentally clipped my face as I pointed the camera upwards. I decided to use this shot to represent my presence. I was completely unconscious and was told by my doctors that I had died instantly.
But I was still there.
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