Christopher Woods lives in Texas. He is a writer and a photographer, and sometimes he combines the two into one piece. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed recently in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. His poetry collection, Maybe Birds Would Carry It Away, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. Gallery -https://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com/f861509283
Artist's Statement:
“Some of us, myself included, have chosen or been condemned to record the world that is all around us. We start small, looking around the room, but soon we also look out the window, see the world we have, for better or worse, inherited. Shrimpers and stockbrokers, roughnecks and collared priests, and on and on, all moving about, the years piling up. Any land will give up words, and history, and secrets. The South gives up many secrets and hides the rest. I am older now, but still naive enough to believe that my life is meant to gather what this land I walk on has to say, the colors and the smells, what is old and what is new - to preserve it in phrases and lines, and in images - as though there might be something worth saving.” My process varies -- color or black and white, to use a filter or not, to continue with a series or create a new one. On and on. But like most writers and visual artists, I am keenly aware that I am simply another witness to this thing called life.