I just received a check from CafePress for my creation — the Unabomber hooded sweatshirt — which I had forgotten about. Apparently a number of people thought the idea was good enough to justify ordering one. Do you?

Perhaps my favorite thing about photographing people while their heads are covered is that they can’t see anything. I think an initial novelty wears off after a few moments and the model realizes she won’t be able to see for a while. Once that happens, I have noticed that they become more expressive with their bodies, naturally compensating for their lack of facial expression.

I imagine something along the line of Ed Gein meets David Berkowitz. Unlike Bundy or Dahmer, whose murders had more of an obsessive sexual nature, Gein and Berkowitz were killing to appease some other personna — like the ritual killings of ancient tribes making sacrifices to their gods in hopes of bringing prosperity, or peace, or just a good season of crops. It’s the same kind of superstitious mythology that leads “medical professionals” to offer prayer to patients in their care. The same dogmatic ignorance that leaves human civilization arguing against itself over whether or not our pollution has caused global warming, even while counting down the days until some fictitious man will come back from the dead, riding out of the sky on a horse. Read that last sentence again, really slowly, and then wonder to yourself about the fact that there are real, living, breathing, intelligent people — lots of them — who actually believe this!

…coming home to a home-cooked meal with a special message in it.