letters from the fringe - #1

LETTERS FROM THE FRINGE

Letters From the Fringe is a project where i invite strangers to write to me — and it has been teaching me patience.

The project became an idea of mine some years ago, when I felt I was constantly traversing different cultures with the stories of strangers beside me. universal truths that drop the distance. i collected these stories shared with me on napkins + the insides of envelopes, desperate to remember the ways in which the story shared its lessons.

So, now, it’s become an invitation for those on the fringes of my small little town to self-reflect alongside me. to share their stories as i share mine — in hopes of finding each other in ourselves.

Letters From the Fringe #1 —

“My name is Brandon Hēthcōx, and i myself am one who is on the ‘fringe’ of the ‘General Public Society’ and for the wrong reasons more so than for the right reasons… I have done my best to rise above my sad Childhood & Teenage past.”

9 pages of re-tellings from an era and area where Dustbowl migrants sought refuge, commonly finding themselves amongst the dislike of locals — even from the locals on the fringes themselves.

A 1940s childhood in Northern New Mexico

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Paired with a 127 film photograph, 2022, kodak brownie