On This Site

"I went to Central Park to find the place behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art where Jennifer Levin had been killed.
It was bewildering to find a scene so beautiful . to see the same sunlight pour down indifferently on the earth. As I
showed the photograph of this site to friends, I realized that I was not alone in thinking of her when walking by the Met.
It occurred to me that I held something within: a list of places that I cannot forget because of the tragedies that identify
them, and I began to wonder if each of us has such a list. I set out to photograph sites that were marked during my
lifetime. Yet, there was something else that drew me to this work. I think of it as the question of knowability. Experience
has taught me again and again that you can never know what lies beneath a surface or behind a façade. Our sense of
place, our understanding of photographs of the landscape is inevitably limited and fraught with misreading."