Friday, March 20, 2009

Peter L. Colman

The reason that such an image, preserved in virtual anonymity from the consciousness of the modern world, is that sixty years and countless lost opportunities later, his son would choose to rescue the memory and focus upon his father’s mute, isolated image. Only the memory and ambiguity of intervening decades could give sense and substance to an otherwise benign, isolated expression - one which betrays a fragile strength:

ROBERT EVERETT COLMAN
‘Bob’
Technical Course. Art Club, 4. Rifle Club, 4.

The yearbook contains one hundred and thirty-two hand-written, inked signatures of classmates. No personal notes or expressions of best wishes. Like that small, black and white passport-sized photo, and a million others just like it that have passed slowly and without complaint or unwanted notoriety into oblivion, each signature bears the indelible imprint of one of countless indispensable souls. There is something in a name.










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