'The All-Kinds Store' I have been drawn lately to places like these, roadside shops that seem less built than gathered. They feel assembled from repairs, additions, salvaged boards, remembered corners, photographs, and half-lost ideas about what a building ought to be. That is close to how I have been working. I have been bringing more collage into the process, more photography, more architectural modeling, and the result is something I love: the image moves closer to reality without fully agreeing to it. It becomes believable, but not obedient. These stores are full of that same energy. They are “finds of all kinds” in every sense. They hold objects that have slipped loose from their original lives and been given a second chance: signs, tools, jars, chairs, wires, odd souvenirs, useful junk, beautiful junk, the things nobody set out looking for but were glad to discover. The buildings themselves feel found as well, patched together from weather, need, invention, and time. Warm light...