The photograph was made in an incredibly cheap and run down motel room up in Seattle on an April afternoon about four years ago. I remember the trip vividly because I was going through a very emotional breakup at the time and I wanted to get out of Portland for a while to clear my head. So I set up a bunch of photoshoots in Seattle as a way to take my mind off my troubles.

Well, as luck would have it, the weather ended up being terrible that week. I’m talking rain showers that made even Seattle natives hide away indoors. I scheduled four shoots and all four of them flaked on me last minute. I can’t say I blamed any of them. The weather was not great for photoshoots. So what is a photographer to do? Well, I posted a quick ad on Craigslist (back when you could do casting calls for nudes on Craigslist) and crossed my fingers I would get a response.