My first semester teaching at Allegheny College I had an enthusiastic student named J9 (Janine Naomi Grant). Her interest was in fashion photography and she worked and worked and worked. I worked with her on many things including improving her lighting and pushing the conventions of what is fashion. She had this idea to use extension chords with her model. I was sick but hung out with them as they worked and offered up thoughts. I shot a few photos too--stealing the set up. One of those images I manipulated with words as thats what I was doing at the time with my work outside of journalism. Manipulated photograph by Richard Sayer