A photo’s presence suggests the fear of its absence, the artist’s fear of time slipping away.

Max Blue
Max Blue writes about the visual arts and modern culture. He holds a BA in the History and Theory of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. His criticism appears in Hyperallergic and the San Francisco Examiner, among others, and his fiction has appeared in Your Impossible Voice and Mount Hope, among others. He lives in San Francisco.