You may not be aware of this exciting career development, but I did just complete an artist-in-residency program and have earned the title Fellow.

Here’s what happened. I actually spent several hours at a local establishment – here’s to you, Flippers Tavern – where my colleague* and I made a lot of photos. We agreed that it sounds a lot fancier to say we’re the first class to complete the residency and are now called Flippers Fellows** than it does to say what really happened which is that we meant to have lunch at Flippers and then move on to something else that was not defined, but that we just stayed there until it was time to meet our families for dinner.

Here’s the Inaugural Image from that intense period in my artistic life. It’s a stack of eight images that I made of three blinking pinball machines. That’s really the value of these residencies: it frees up your time so you can push your own artistic vision. Or, you know, whatever.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.7.2026

*Claudette Torneden, if you’re wondering what kind of fancy connections I have in the art world.

**Please contact me for more information about available career-advancement opportunities.