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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, 4
Well.
This poor bride. Not only are sleeves, her hair, her headdress, and her veil so big they barely fit in the picture, but her parents are lurking over there in the corner in a way that seems sort of predatory.
And then there’s the whole eyeball situation.
scanned and manipulated found negative
Lubbock, Texas
5.3.2025
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
One Day | One Image 