This is a box about a photograph.

Let’s see how I can focus.  Focus.  Focus.  Flash.  And now you are captured.  In an instant you are depicted in an unchanging state.  This box can be colorful, or not.  How do we escape this one if it is worth a thousand words?  Some of them must still apply, even now.  “Mexican”.  How does one escape this one?  “Male”.  I know this one is not “permanent”, but neither is “young”.  Assimilation or estrangement?  I am stuck in this photograph as I am stuck in the pieces of my life.  I do not want to escape from some:  male, brown, thick haired.  Others I want to rip through, cut out, erase, expose, develop into whiteness, or black, or grey.