Ten years ago, a friend passed along a remedial piece of editing software he found online. Late one evening and into early the next morning, music raucous, tired eyes, I began using the software attempting to salvage a bad photograph. Before deleting the photograph, I began using the software in ways that were never intended. A couple hours later I stared in amazement at what had been created. There wasn’t much left of the original photograph, and that was fine, but now the question “what the hell is this”?

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Through 2013 and into 2014, I was obsessed with creating this stuff. I didn’t abandon my camera, but I spent too much time away from it. Apparently, this had been a welcome diversion. The time had come to stop. And I did.

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Recently, I looked back at the designs. Here are a few of the best. I will leave them here for a time and then back into the folder they’ll go. It’s curious to see early designs juxtaposed with later more finessed images.

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Surrender Dorothy appeared in an exhibition of black and white art at William Woods University, Fulton, MO., 2017

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