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fever dream, 6
No one ever knew for sure what happened that year at the prom. Almost all of the photographs were mysteriously altered. The photographer, a surly woman named Wilma Thorne, left town before school started in the fall, denying all the while that she’d had anything to do with any of it.
scanned and manipulated found negative
Lubbock, Texas
5.7.20205
fever dream, 5
This cowboy-hatted gentleman took his guitar on a picnic. Or something.
scanned and manipulated found negative
Lubbock, Texas
5.4.2025
fever dream 3
I can neither explain nor defend what happened here. What I can say is that it made me laugh and it made me a little frightened .
Side Note: the morning after he’d seen this image, my spouse reported that he’d had a dream about his mother and in the dream her face was gone.
scanned and manipulated found negative
Lubbock, Texas
4.26.2025
fever dream 2
If you’d ever wondered what would happen if you scanned a negative as a negative (instead of turning it into a positive) and then did a pile of edit-y things to it – this can (potentially) give you some answers.
Or other could haunt your dreams.
Or – if it’s your lucky day – both of those things could happen.
scanned and manipulated found negative
Lubbock, Texas
4.25.2025
fever dream, 1
Way back in time, during the COVID era, a photography studio in a neighboring town went out of business. They sold the props, the backdrops, the shelves. And boxes and boxes of negatives.
I bought some of the negatives with the idea that I’d do something with them someday.
Someday turns out to be: right now.
My imagination runs wild when I start manipulating these negatives, and I hope you’ll let yours do the same.
scanned and manipulated found negative
Lubbock, Texas
4.25.2025
One Day | One Image 