In the late 1800's, Mayme Watson boards a train bound for Eagle Rock, Idaho. What she finds there is the start of a new life. Disillusioned by her parents and completely alone, she finds a place to stay and a job to support herself. When Mayme discovers that most of the girls in town are just biding their time until they can marry, her heart calls for a change. She embarks on an adventure to overcome her feelings of failure. And what a change that is. She disguises herself as a boy and manages to hire on as a Post Rider for the United States Postal Service.

Follow along with Mayme...

"Did you see that?"
"No. What?"
"Never mind, its gone."

So often we see something and in the blink of an eye, it disappears.
The photographs in this collection capture an image at the moment
of most impact before the subject is changed or gone. Laurie Salzlers
photographs have a transcendence beyond simple representation that takes the viewer to a deeper level. Sheila Pearsons complements these photographs with quietly pulled words from the stillness of reflection
combined with the voice of suggestion.

With a mixture of vision and expression, Salzlers photographs and
Pearsons words...