It all started one balmy night on Lincoln road, Miami Beach Florida in 2006, out for the night with some friends. As we sauntered down the pedestrianized walk-way my mind wandered (as usual) from the banter about which bar full of annoying AXE deodorant wearing sweaty people spilling their $16 drinks over each other we should go to. Thats when i saw him, shining under a ray of Jesus light.

At first he looked like a headless mannequin taking a break from the seasons attire in the window of the Penguin store, on closer inspection, i discovered he was wearing a black flat cap that merged into the night darkness, the light caught the pearly white folds in his tightly closed jacket, his hands tucked firmly into his pockets and his legged crossed in front of him revealing his cream pants. The thick lenses of his glasses distorted and enlarged his eyes like the bottom of a glass bottle to display to the world that this guy was……..asleep.

In a movement as quick as the vampires in the HBO series True Blood, i was posing for a photo next to the mysterious sleepy man. As the red eye reduction flash indicated the start of the camera i had an overwhelming urge to lift up my left hand to my face mocking a whisper into his ear…….The Start.