mensritual

Jeremy Green “Holy Smoke” 12/22/21

It’s predominantly a guy thing. Aspects of this ritual go back many centuries and across cultures on this continent. Men can get together as friends in a cigar lounge even though they are total strangers. It’s not a Kumbaya sort of thing, just people (mostly men) being together without putting on airs, but merely and merrily fouling the air with voluminous plumes of cigar smoke and enjoying some down time together away from the rest of the world. This is a picture of the owner of an intimate cigar lounge in Santa Monica. He asked me to make some images in his store for his website in trade for some boxes of his wares. The store’s name “Hollywood Smoke” kept looking like “Holy Smoke” to me.