"It's a Mess Without You!" - Cinco, CA - Limited Edition 6 of 10 Photograph

First printed: 2014 I had been photographing the abandoned trailers at this site for four years before capturing this image. The same room appears in an earlier photograph "Desert Kitchen - Cinco, CA - 2010" before the sink was pried out and some unknown person or persons were moved to add this memorable inscription to the scene. As a documentary photographer, I can only bear witness to the aftermath of such events, wondering like you, who may have spray-painted the note, in what circumstance, and for what intended audience. Whatever the author’s intention, this image has caught the imagination of a wide range of people on a personal level, leading to rampant, engaging speculation as to the full story. This large-size print edition is on its way to selling out, but a smaller-size edition is also available on Saatchi Art. This image has been exhibited/featured in the following venues: It's a Mess Without You - Solo Exhibition – Porch Gallery - Ojai, CA - 2017 Artillery Magazine - Feature Story by Betty Ann Brown - 2017 - Photo LA – The REEF - Los Angeles, CA – 2017 Finalist - FOCUS Photo – 2016 Office Hours – The Main Museum – Los Angeles, CA - 2016 Museum Tour (Solo Show) - Venice Institute of Contemporary Art/Gypsy Trails Gallery - Torrance Art Museum - 2015 Boom: a Journal of California - Framing the Desert - Summer 2015
 West Hollywood Lifestyle Magazine - Premiere Issue - Winter 2014
 Solo Exhibition - Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 - 2014 The Life of Things - SCA Project Gallery - Pomona, CA - 2014 KCET Artbound: High & Dry - A Collaboration Surveying the American Desert - May 21, 2014 Each print is titled, signed, dated and numbered on verso. There is an approximately 3" white boarder around the image area. Prints are manufactured in-house at Chungking Studio in Los Angeles Chinatown. The Window Series is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Museum Etching paper, a museum-quality, 350 GSM-weight paper which is exceptionally robust and renders outstanding detail. After a successful print is inspected and approved, a protective seal is applied using a three-step process that increases moisture, dirt, fingerprint, and UV resistance; extending the already significant color-fastness of modern archival inks approximately 3x the length of untreated prints. Note: Image area is approximately 18x18" on 24x30" paper. Each print is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.