I rebuilt this site because the old version made it too easy to treat photographs like loose files waiting for somewhere to go.
That sounds small, but it matters. I can make a lot of images and then get stuck trying to justify them too early. Digital makes that easy. Film makes it slower, but not automatically more honest. Either way, the best pictures usually start before the argument does: something catches, I lift the camera, and only later do I understand why it mattered.
I have lived with enough ADHD executive function fog to know how quickly a project can become a pile. The folders get named later. The scans get handled later. The good frames sit beside the almost-good frames until the whole thing starts to feel louder than it is. Then the work becomes another place I avoid, even when the work itself is part of what helps me feel present.
I am trying to photograph first and worry less. To trust the little pull that says there is something here before I start arguing with it. A funny sign, a tired storefront, beach light, a room that has been left behind, a person moving through a corner of public life. The soft stuff and the rough stuff can live together, and I want the archive to feel like I followed my instincts instead of editing myself before the shutter.
SpikeShotThis has always been about recording my world with emulsions and electrons. Rebuilding the site is a way of giving those photographs somewhere to land without needing every frame to explain itself immediately.
This is the first note in that direction.
