Hi.

I'm Allison Hopper, Marty's last wife.

You can contact me at: allisonhop@gmail.com.

Marty and I were together for five years.

Five, happy, strange, and transformative years for both of us.

Marty has been called many things, some of them printable, some not.

What sticks with me are the words that his friend, Richard, used to describe him at our wedding. Richard raised his glass of champagne and said that Marty was both the most brilliant man he'd ever met and also, "very sweet, a very, very sweet man."

These are the qualities that I want to convey with this odd collection of pictures and memories. 

Marty lived most of his life with partial vision.

He lived the last eight years of his life with 1/3 of his heart.

He lived the last few months of his life with an impossibly low blood count.

He would go into his doctors and they would look at his "numbers" and say, "How can you still be up and walking around?  How can you be smiling?  This is freakish!"

That was Marty.  He did incredible work with very limited resources. 

He spent the last decade of his life wrestling with "blind-deconvolution" - the ability to make something out of nothing or to turn raw digital junk into useful information.

He died before he was able to truly manifest this last stage of his vision.

He felt he had cracked the code, but his claims were so extraordinary that not many people took them seriously.

Sigh.

Who knows?

Marty loved castles.

This is a photo that he took at the fort in Jaiselmere, India.  He said this was his favorite spot in the world.

When I was trying to get him to move out of New York City, he protested that he would only consider relocating to a place that had castles and monkeys.

We built this teepee in our backyard out of driftwood collected from the shores of the Hudson.  It was our castle.