My favorite story of an event affecting the direction of a person’s life is that of Sarah L. Anzick. In 1968, when she was two years old, the remains of a Clovis Culture infant, dating back more than 12,000 years, was discovered on her family’s ranch outside of Wilsall, Montana. The infant is known as Ansick-1. Sarah grew up to be a geneticist and sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of Ansick-1. It is the earliest Native American genome to be fully sequenced. It provides evidence of a gene flow from Siberia into the Americas. The land bridge between Siberia and North America, over which it’s proposed Anzick-1’s ancestors travelled, is named Beringia. This name was given to it in 1937 by Eric Hultén, a Swedish botanist. Eric’s son, Pontus, became the director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and in 1968, the year Anzick-1 was discovered, gave Andy Warhol his first major international exhibition. The catalog for this exhibition contained 165 pages of my photographs, the first significant group of my pictures to be published. It was while sequencing my work with the catalog’s editor, Kasper König, that Kasper introduced me to Ed Ruscha’s books. The poet Jane Hirshfield wrote: “Zen pretty much comes down to three things—everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.” From “Modern Instances. The Craft of Photography. A Memoir”. Published by @mack_books Photographs: Stephen Shore, “Wilsall, Montana, July 25, 2020” Stephen Shore, “Pontus Hultén, New York, New York, September–October, 1972”