While in the middle of a mental health crisis, I began exploring other creative outlets – such as photography, towards the end of 2014 in an attempt to get out of my head for just a bit.
By now, even non-sports fans probably know that the team name for the Major League Baseball franchise here in Cleveland changed to the Guardians to start the 2022 MLB season after 106 years of being referred to as the Indians.
Sometime over the summer of 2023, I was contacted by a friend named Lennie Stover. I was introduced to Lennie in 2018 through a contact I made during the pre-production phase of a documentary – “Train Ave”, I was directing and producing at the time.
Located within the historic Lake View Cemetery – a notable resting place for some of Cleveland’s most prominent and influential residents of the past, is a mysterious, yet haunting, statue widely known as the Haserot Angel, who appears to be weeping black tears.
On June 22, 1969, the seemingly impossible turned possible when the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire. The images of the Cuyahoga shocked and horrified the nation, but it actually marked the thirteenth time it occurred in its recorded history.
