Catherine Thomson, writer-photographer-artist at-large, has submitted the following for your consideration. It is a photo essay on the dish dryer, one that holds the clean utensils of a good day, a bad day, the every day. What goes on inside this dish dryer? Glasses seen as either half full or half empty are now bottoms up... waiting for the next assignment. Discussions over grilled chicken with broccoli, or ham steak with pasta salad, are made and gone. These dish dryer photos show what has been, and what might be. They are a flash, a moment caught. A time between or about to happen.

To me, these photos speak of potential, but they also speak volumes about experience and the intimacies of private life. Dishes are used every day, almost taken for granted, but always washed carefully and stacked to dry. An event that happens every day, but each time unique. Just like these dishes, we are the same people today as we were yesterday, as we probably will be tomorrow. And yet, each day is full of great possibility; a cupboard-full of opportunities. We just have to set a place at the table and see what happens!

R. Andrew Duff, A.O.C.A., B.F.A., lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Post Script by Catherine Thomson
Or whatever...don't you just hate pompous art critic types who read meaning into everything?
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