This is my mother in Jerome, Arizona, around the turn of the century. It was my last time with my mother and wife.
I knew that computers and artificial intelligence like Photoshop would let me make this picture better. My patience paid off.
My mother hated this picture because it made her look old. She seems very timeless to me
This is the Sea of Same-ness. That name seems to have stuck since I took this picture. It is a Phoenix suburb in the northern portions of the valley. It was taken on one of my hikes to a geocache, which I believe is still there and called “Island in the Burbs”. This is a black-and-white photograph since, at this time I was not taking black and white digital. Probably 35 mm Kodak developed by hand. Taking some time in the early 2000s, I knew even then that I would want to get out of here because this is not the kind of place that I want to live.
This is my real office in Arizona. You’re looking at the bathroom floor of the men’s room where I would escape to about three or four times ...
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