One day, my assistant was describing what it was like to work with me on this "impossible" project. He held up his daughter’s black pencil case and said: "Andrea is the kind of person who will look at this black case and tell you it is white. You can’t convince him otherwise until, finally, much later, he admits it. That is just who Andrea is!"

My response was this: No one had ever succeeded in capturing large-format, direct color positives outdoors because everyone started with what was "obvious." They accepted the rules. By insisting that things might not be what they seem—even when it sounds impossible—we eventually found the one instance where the accepted "truth" failed. That doubt revealed the crack in a wall that everyone else thought was impassable.