This is a man named Gordon who I used to stop in and talk with; within the 2 year time frame that I visited with him he transformed from an old eccentric still having one foot in reality to delusional and living in a near entirely fabricated world. I remember a mixture of sadness and fear the last time I stopped in to say hi b/c I saw that he – his sane self, that is – had almost entirely dissipated. That’s when I took this portrait. It was an intense situation, surreal in retrospect.

photo: Gordon at Lewis Motel in Oregon City, 2003. ©Graeme Mitchell, 2007.