RIVER MAN

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River Man is a recollection of true events that followed Hurricane Mathew in its path over the Vernon River in Savannah, Georgia.

Personal writing was set in HAL Timezone, a serif typeface that looks slightly weighted down and sinkable. The vowels remind me of ink on damp paper. NOAA Nautical Charts illustrate how many ways the man could have drifted through the marsh instead of drifting to us. I’ve never seen a Savannah home without Map #11512 framed in the hallway. Every inch of mine has been cut, ripped, or scanned over time.

Film photography ranges across French White paper and Timber Green divider pages. Pictures stitched into the book were printed on Red River 68lb Ultra Pro Satin. River Man was printed through the XEROX at my on-campus print job. Silk inkjet sheets, printed at home, tell of the times I felt the veil between worlds at its thinnest.

Experiences of onsite police questioning and obsessive research on the River Man's identity were removed, just in case that information is better off at the bottom of the river where I went back to return it.