A bunch of us went to a crummy restaurant at a mall for dinner. The food was terrible. After our meal, we wandered off into the mall, trying to regain our sanity. It was there that we found one of those remainder book stores -- the kind that open for a few months, sell discount books, and then close up shop.

Sitting in the bargain bin out front was a book called "Heads" by Alex Kayser. He's an "avant-garde photographer" -- or so says the back of his book. "Heads" consists of 200 photographs of bald people looking forward. It's the same shot over and over again, but each time with a different bald person. Men and women, many different races, all of them bald -- either naturally bald, or shaved.

Because I am obsessed with faces, I was in complete awe of this book. At first glance, all the faces look more or less the same. But a deeper look reveals all sorts of subtle differences. Different shadows, different angles, different proportions, and eyebrows and mouths and noses. Wow. I have probably devoted hours of my life to just flipping through the pictures, staring at these people.

I don't know who most of these people are. The one face I recognize is the black actor who did those old "un-cola" commercials a million years ago. Turns out he's an artist as well as an actor. It's strangely comforting to know he has a life outside those awful commercials.

This work was sold, wrapped in plastic bags, put inside a box made from a shoe box, and shipped to the United States. It now hangs in an office, confusing people studying science.