The “Bluffs of the Ohio” is the name given the limestone cliffs along stretches of the Ohio River in southern Indiana. One easy place to see them is at Indiana’s O’Bannon Woods State Park, where a trail meanders along the cliffs. I once invited Ku Hone, a Louisville photographer I’d met at an art market, for a shoot along the bluffs. He brought his DSLR, I brought my 4x5. We poked among the rocks for a few hours. I came upon this strange scene—and even in that moment, I couldn’t have realized what would come of it—and photographed it. One friend called it “The Demon in the Rock,” or something to that effect. To me, it is an ascending figure. It’s a tricky one to print because on the negative, the image here is actually small; I have to enlarge it considerably to isolate the image in the proportion I want, and that means I likely will never print it larger than 11x14 because the tower of the enlarger goes too high!