The work in this portfolio represents an attempt: each image is an accumulation of 100 photos – taken in short succession and then layered one on top of the other at 1% opacity – to create a single-frame movie, in a way, sharing a minute or two out of the more than 83 million minutes this farmhouse has stood its ground.

This farmhouse has been in my wife’s family for 155 years. It is a literal and metaphorical foundation for six generations. Tens of thousands of days, one after another, farming the surrounding fields. Waking up on Christmas mornings nowhere but here. Grandchildren on summer breaks playing games and catching fireflies and climbing hay bales.

My wife and I now own this old stone farmhouse along with a few outbuildings and eight acres of land. Room by room we are restoring it for weekend getaways and family retreats, a place for our own grandchildren to one day wake up on Christmas mornings and catch fireflies on summer nights.