David Polaroid is lying on a diving

is lying on a diving board that was wrapped in black cloth to blend in with the water

I spent hundreds of hours refining my original photographs to produce the finished images you see here

as if that explained everything

including a cross-country trip from California to New York

since she was fifteen and her foster mother died

David Polaroid is lying on a divingDavid says hes logged over 20,000 miles on his bicycle, including a cross country trip from California to New York. He worked as a machinist for years until, he says, jobs dried up under NAFTA. Theres no work for machinists anywhere in California, he insists. David is a gentle, caring soul. Last time I saw him, he was taking care of an obviously disturbed, elderly woman in a wheelchair who would scream obscenities at passersby, especially if they were