In 1994 I started a project that would ultimately shape the rest of my life. I began visiting Mexico, documenting a single family in regularly scheduled trips, ultimately over the course of two decades. The figures in the family grew older, some died, others had children, and they too would grow up into young adults. As one might imagine, my relationship to this project changed, organically, over time. What began as a fascination with intimacy and familial attitudes slowly grew into creative nonfiction, blurring the lines between my implicit involvement in this family's life and the truthful documents I made of them. I view this project as life-affirming and something which I have come to understand is a radical gesture of sentimentality and a memorial to the passage of time, as relentless as it is inspirational.

Though these documentary essays have revolved primarily around image-making, I have maintained journals steadily throughout their duration. The journal entries allow me to retain a record of events as they unfold, either before my camera or out of its vision, helping me to maintain perspective over the course of long-term documentary explorations, and providing a window into the worlds of the documenter and the documented alike.

The final book contains 413 photos (culled from 20,000 photos), and includes 200 pages of journal entries (culled from 2,000 pages of transcribed journals).