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mt. olive

I was in Sudan (the town, not the country) the other Sunday morning. This church seems to be abandoned, but there was some preachin’ going on a block away in the town square. It was echoey and I couldn’t make out words but I knew it was a sermon from the cadence of it.

Oh, and also, I’d already driven by and seen it.

Sudan, Texas
photographed 8.31.2025

only one smile

Evidence suggests that wig-head models share sharp-featured Caucasian faces, big eyes, thin eyebrows, graceful swan-like necks (which they can pose at a variety of odd angles), and geometric heads. The jauntier of them may toss on a scarf from time to time.

But they rarely find anything to smile about.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 8.23.2025

human hair

If you can even believe this, none of the three people who walked by while I was poking my camera through the security gate to get this shot even acted like they wished THEY had had the same idea. However, as far as I could tell, all three of them did possess human hair.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 8.23.2025

red light district

Of course my eye was drawn to the only bit of color in the scene…even though what I’d gone over there to photograph was the remains of a building on the right side of the image. Now I can understand that the building-husk was just the bait to lure me in.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025

there’s always a water bottle

Fun fact: almost every abandoned building will have at least one water bottle gathering dust along with the other discarded parts of someone’s life.

Muleshoe, Texas
photographed 7.14.2025