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The Best Views in Old Bisbee
Bisbee is a city best understood from above. Climb high enough and the whole improbable story reveals itself.
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Bisbee: Photography, Extraction, and the Perfect Anthropocene Community
The town is a wound that has decided to become a mirror. As a photographer I come here the way antibodies come to an antigen: compelled, purposeful, slightly…
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Salvaging Bisbee’s Iconic Salt Girl
The Morton Salt Girl emerged in 1914 not merely as a mascot, but as a clinical triumph of mid-century corporate psychology.
Terminal Voices: Ghost Posts from the Past
In the digital afterlife, death is no obstacle. The voices of the deceased are no longer ghosts but recombinant data points of the AI algorithm. The result is a kaleidoscopic scrapbook where fiction and reality are forever blurred.
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Joan Didion Eats a Pastry at Jacqui’s Patissiere
It was a Tuesday in February, or perhaps it was a Thursday, and the light in Bisbee was that specific, high-altitude gold that suggests both a beginning and an end.
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Richard Brautigan Goes Camping in the Dragoons
It was a Tuesday that tasted like a dry cracker, so we loaded the truck with a patchwork quilt, a jar of pickled peaches, and a Coleman stove that hummed like a confused bumblebee. We were headed for the Dragoon Mountains, a place where the rocks look like they were piled up by a giant who…
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Charles Bukowski: A Night at St. Elmo
The sun dies behind the Mule Mountains like a cheap cigar stubbed out in a gutter, and that’s when you crawl toward the neon hum of St. Elmo Bar.