it began as a novella feverishly written two years ago; then, flirted with some big-screen ambitions, and finally found its way into a sticky warehouse sometime between the 1980s and the COVID-19 crisis. if ABC’s Martin Fry had penned lyrics about an 18th century casta painter traveling to New Spain, this undoubtedly would have been the album art; the high-camp of Pierre et Gilles meets the revisionist theatrical works of Sterling Houston; and, what a meta-mess: photographs of actors rehearsing a play based on a novella that will never be! read more.

this series of images are work-in-progress composites of three mamiya c33 exposures, taken at different times to work within the limits of social distancing. credits below.