I met Stephen Rogers, coffee roaster, at Stumptown coffee shop at Ace Hotel in New York on May 19, 2010. I asked him what his romance was. He said, “I live in romance!” And I said, “excuse me?” He said, “I live in romance. Romance, Arkansas!”
This project was inspired by a man who was wearing a skirt and walking on 5th Avenue at lunchtime. He was screaming "KEEP ROMANCE ALIVE! KEEP ROMANCE ALIVE!"