Marcel in black shirt, April, 1986

Crumpled silk chiffon or perhaps a gauze

Egg and Dart, 1988

Sarah's hand on copper flashing ripped by hurricane off building in Fort Point Channel district in 1988.

Hanover Street, North End, 6/30/86

My last day in the North End studio. Long shoot with Sarah.

Cave canem

Forest Hills Cemetery, 7/7/09.

"Nothingness, receive your prey!"

A disfigured Madonna from Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. This is a digital image, shot with my little Panasonic camera, using a "grainy black and white" setting. Or, you could say, the Tri-X setting. What is photography, after all? Here's a wanna-be John Clarence Laughlin image with simulated grain.

Still, I like it. The quote in the title is from The Saragossa Manuscript by Jan Potocki, a Pole who published his book in French with the title, Manuscrit Trouvé à Saragosse.