David Polaroid elderly woman in a wheelchair

elderly woman in a wheelchair who would scream obscenities at passersby

I spent hundreds of hours refining my original photographs to produce the finished images you see here

This one was sectioned together from dozens of separate exposures

as if that explained everything

Spider John Koerner

David Polaroid elderly woman in a wheelchairDavid says hes logged over 20,000 miles on his bicycle, including a cross country trip from California to New York. He worked as a machinist for years until, he says, jobs dried up under NAFTA. Theres no work for machinists anywhere in California, he insists. David is a gentle, caring soul. Last time I saw him, he was taking care of an obviously disturbed, elderly woman in a wheelchair who would scream obscenities at passersby, especially if they were