I am interested in icons, especially for how they can be
manipulated. To that end, I work to create photographs with a mysterious dimension,
a seamless visual ambiguity between the real and imaginary.
Each piece is made up of several to many digitally combined images from
my collection of photographs. I generally scan three or four images as
the base elements for a new composition. Then, as the work evolves, I
scan and incorporate others. To create a playfully surreal outcome, a
consistent image making strategy I employ is the use of extraordinarily
vibrant color. Others include transformation, repetition, substitution,
disruption of scale, and inconsistent perspective. The direction of the
work takes on a life of it’s own, which I could
not have predicted at the outset. Wide and flat becomes tall and narrow.
Weather changes and day becomes night. When to stop? There is no end
to it, only stages in a process. Along the way, I make limited edition
prints on Fuji Crystal Archive (wet darkroom) paper.
