ORIGINAL ELIZA — A FATHER'S PHOTOGRAPHS

"These photographs of my daughter, taken over nearly two decades, tell a story no text can, for all too easily, given the circumstances surrounding them, would words deteriorate into fact and issue, simplistic psychology, legal briefs, dysfunctional denials, tabloid accusations, all presently slipping into the past, desperate and demanding to be forgotten.

Yet the pictures remain, with a life of their own.

Much is said these days about the rights of children, and the joys of their wonder. Original Eliza was abundant in those joys, despite the pain she suffered, and equally abundant in the courage to deal with it, with often an astonishing and spontaneous sense of humor. Fighting for her health -- and her rights -- was a major -- occasionally overwhelming --- task which we shared with unconditional love, and sometimes with great happiness.

All that is gone now, for another persona runs the fort. But, for seventeen years, the two of us lived a great and warm human adventure, unextinguishable to memory. "

— DXY