First Mirror • Love Song on Low Volume • Country Where They Shower Beneath the Moon •
Spine of a Rosary • Prayer in One-Part Harmony • Lottery Woman • Dawn Trickling Through the Blinds • Nation of Mourning Palms • Island of Two Countries • Sciatica’s Nervous Civil War •

May your subconscious sleep- / self conjure me in nightmares. / No brujería and no poisoned fruit / 
necessary: terror is my name / scratched into your skin, your fingers / digging for me in barren soil.

I prefer to work with natural light, however I do enjoy the sense of theater implicit during studio settings. The idea of "control" is an illusion when attempting to create a "portrait" of another being. For me, there is the anticipation of a moment that will be unexpected, perhaps very dramatic, or a mood of something entirely else, for both subject and photographer. I like Carl Phillips' sensibility (he applies it to poetry), "…what I'm always after. Nothing gutless, and nothing without its ability to surprise."

Our boss came to town. He said since he was on the border he wanted to go someplace real / Authentic. Where real Mexicans eat. None of this fake gringo stuff. You know. Ethnic.