_The Polaroid Party // Marshall Kappel

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Winter. 1981.

Wayne Kappel purchases the house on North Norris Avenue and gives his son a broken Argus twin-lens to explore the new neighborhood. Marshall’s vision from the cracked reflex mirror is permanently impaired as he runs, looking down at the flat screen, directing the life that moves before him. The scenes partly reflecting his face imposed on the lives in chaotic motion around him. He has never recovered. Everything is broken.

Marshall believes that all work must be intensely personal. He is not objective, absolute or universal. With a grand sense of adventure and desire to be swept away, Marshall tends to travel while reflecting on the warmth of nostalgia and the empty, soft melancholy of something new to come.

Born in Arizona, Marshall is of The West, but drawn to New York, constantly looking back.