Why do you keep quoting Minor White?

It's a reminder of how badly I can get things wrong. Twenty years ago I thought there was nothing much to his photographs. It's taken me a long time to understand the depth in his simplicity. I have much to learn from White.

Why don't you do this stuff on a computer?
Why don't you put this stuff on video?
Why do you keep using that old technology?

You just can't get the visual quality on TV screen that you can get on 35mm film. I'm sure it'll catch up one day. Until then I'll keep using film. The longer I work in this medium, the more I become fascinated by the subtlety of long slow dissolves. You just can't see that kind of subtlety on a computer screen.

Why don't you do put this on film and turn it into a movie?

I just don't have that kind of money.

Why do you keep showing bad photographs?

I'm not showing photographs—I'm showing transitions between photographs. Anyway, they're not all bad! I raved on about that in the artist's statement I had to write for Domenic.

What's the name 'Small Change' supposed to mean?

I thought I was being clever giving the event a name that had two meanings. Then the librarian at Watson CIT pointed out a third and I looked silly.

I meant that the concert consisted of little pieces—they're not great symphonies. And the pieces are made of small changes—slow dissolves between related images. Then Diana said "Is that what I need to get in?", and I suppose it is—$6 isn't much is it?

Why aren't you selling children's tickets?

That's very straightforward. Some of the pieces are quite slow and contemplative. Children are likely get bored—and bored children are likely to spoil it for adults. There's nothing offensive in the concert that I know of. It's just that it takes a certain amount of maturity to appreciate visual music.