See the way the water's surface changes your reflection — rippled, shimmering, ever changing, imperfect. Maybe water captures us more accurately. Today, we see it only in the water, free-flowing and fleeting.

To speak to Jordan Gonzalez is to rest beside a soft quiet, one that follows long walks in the fall of amber leaves as the trees undress. He thinks wisely, speaks gently, and carries himself with the calm gravity of someone who has lived many versions of himself and survived all of them.