do you record the smell of sneezes? i ask this because my father's sneeze always filled the room with a characteristic smell, something like a minty grassy pollen mixed with snot. i would imagine the sneeze particles hanging in the air and recoil, holding my breath so that the particles would not penetrate into the air i breathed. i soon learned to anticipate his sneezes and gamely duck out of the room whenever i saw one coming on. this method was so successful that i haven't thought about his sneezes for a long time, until last night when someone broke out a joint at a concert. i usually enjoy the sweet grassy smell, but this must have been a bad batch, because boy oh boy did it smell like one of the sneezes that had terrorized my childhood. i regressed to being 5, and held my breath.
i wonder what my father would think of my sharing this information on the internet. as a side note, all of these family photographs look a little wonky because they were scanned on a very low quality negative scanner (the only one i could find). after being trained in analog photography and relentlessly deterred by a post-grad digital world, i'm beginning to enjoy the terms of my digital submission. i'm starting to think that we can manipulate photographs and still preserve their original integrity - as long as you know what integrity means.
