One Leg Out/Faceless Portrait, 2007, is a memorial text of 62,000 words, based on a personal experience that took place in the early 1990's. 

The text portrays the chance encounter and symbiotic relationship between an intense storyteller, who is slipping into homelessness, and a silenced but active listener.

The Narrator's voice is one of great sensitivity, cravings, and gallows humor - expressing a conviction that as bad as any situation is, nothing prevents it from spinning further out of control. It is also a voice of chronic resistance, and the critique is multi-directed: at dominant systems, counter-systems, family, social circle, intermittent workmates, self, and listener. Meaning is found in continued engagement and moments of tender connection.

In text, The Narrator singles out one group that is doing effective work on behalf of the unhoused population: Mad Housers - a group started by activist architects in Atlanta. In 2010, I was able to meet with the group in Atlanta, and I interviewed Tracy Woodard of Mad Housers in 2026 as part of the Speaking in Pairs exhibition.

My interview with Tracy Woodard of Mad Housers, in front of my text, as part of the Speaking in Pairs exhibition at Leubsdorf gallery