welcome to snafu—field notes
snafu is my long look at everyday life in America. Realized as sixty-six handmade books and a field guide, it gathers fragments of the ordinary and the absurd — tracing the shifting texture of daily existence across time and place.
Grounded in the American social-documentary tradition yet reaching toward a Whitman-esque embrace of contradiction, I accept fragmentation as a form of wholeness — a mirror to the American condition itself.
This space extends that idea — what drifts outside the books: notes, images, small alignments of chance and attention. Like Whitman, I try to gather multitudes — clarity and confusion, humor and grief, beauty and ruin.
snafu is about what happens when things don’t line up — when the story collapses and something real starts to show through. It’s my record of looking, and of being looked back at by the world.
— Theo Anderson