Parallel lines are the most ubiquitous geometries of our experience. They always work in tandem, yet they never meet. They contain, yet they continue infinitely. They organize everything we see with rhythm and repetition, yet we rarely notice them for their own sake. Without parallel lines, curved lines would lose meaning for want of a counterpoint. They frame our views of the present while reminding us of their illusionary convergence into future and past.

 

Inspired by photographers Neil Leifer, Horst Faas and Annie Leibovitz, Timothy Macy bought his first Nikon in the summer of 1978 with money saved from mowing lawns and waxing cars. He could not afford the camera body and lens at once, so he bought the body first and then had to wait a month before he had the money for the lens. To this day, it remains the longest four weeks of his life. Macy is a multiple graduate of Ball State University, with degrees in photojournalism, American literature, creative writing, and architecture. His photographs have been exhibited at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Germany, France and elsewhere. After 30 years as an architectural designer in New York City, he now lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.