Fragements and notes for current works:
- A woman went missing after crashing her car and a heat-seeking helicopter searched for signs of life from the sky. This image has been haunting my dreams: a machine hovering above, far enough way to see everything, and yet so blind it needs heat-seeking technology to track someone down; that you have to go so far away to sense the heat; that this woman still was not found, even though there was only a ten-minute window where she could have disappeared. (I will write a lot more on this case later, and also include more details like the name.)
- A composite artist in Michigan may have seen missing Prosecutor Ray Gricar. I read this, and it hit me how amazing this is: that a forensic artist should be the witness, the one to spot the face among the thousands, the one to see. It makes sense. It is both opposite and the same from what he does when he creates composite drawings - finding an identity from thin air. (More on this concept later, too. This is just a quick note. I have written this concept into an essay I am working on ...)
- Amplitude Modulation in our brains and the importance of disorder - and how that ties into forensic art, witnesses, and finding the lost.
- What about all the online crime discussion communities? What motivates them? (Besides their compassion and empathy, their obvious big hearts.) I read them endlessly, not really participating in the sleuthing, but very interested in their logics. I will have to write about them. Look for posts here in the future.
and lots more ...