No Hard Evidence followed smaller "photoconstructions" (two are above) and my move in 1984 to Washington, DC, from Washington, Vermont, a small town where I had lived for ten years on fifteen acres of land without electricity or running water. My life in Vermont was neither quiet nor idyllic: there was wood to haul, cut, and stack; water to pump; large gardens to plant, tend, and harvest; snow to plow and tricky winter roads to negotiate on my way to teach at Goddard College and the University of Vermont.