You might say the late Vernon Fisher was the impetus for our Art Influencers issue. In keeping with a summer tradition, 2015 found us emphasizing the Best of the Arts (which has since morphed into Art Influencers). Back then, via Talley Dunn, Vernon invited me and photographer John Smith inside his Fort Worth studio to photograph our cover story. While there, in a clumsy move, I caught my heel, slipped, and fell, experiencing an excruciating albeit tiny fracture beneath my elbow. Vernon kindly asked if I thought it was broken but I denied this. Instead, channeling those erasure marks for which he was known and dismissing the pain, we pressed on with the shoot.
