These photographs are based on pictures of rural Americans taken by Russell Lee in 1940 in Pie Town, New Mexico. Grossman manipulated the images digitally to create an imaginary record of a utopian lesbian community. The artist’s subtle interventions are almost imperceptible: she shapes a feminine jaw from a masculine one or brings two bodies closer together to create a sense of intimacy. Grossman writes, “I am filled with a longing to connect with that time and the people in Lee’s images. But as a modern, queer woman, there is no room for me or for my objects of desire in his pictures. So in an attempt to make the history I wish was real, I have made over Pie Town to mirror my fantasy.”