PHOTOGRAPHIC ART

Mobile Creativity

iPhone / iTouch / iPad

Photographic Impressionism

2008 -2011

Photo Anagram Image Series

2008 - 2011

Liquid Flowers Series

2001 - 2007

Artist Statement

 

My passion for photography began as a small child growing up in Silicon Valley long before there was any silicon or much technology.  I became fascinated with photography as a means to record the world around me.  As I matured and formally studied photography as a profession, my deepening interest in image making expanded along with the technical advancements of the medium.  Over the years, I conceptualized images that drew upon the mechanics, optics, software and electronics of the camera system that enabled me to evolve the images in my mind.

 

It is through the medium of photography that I fantasize imagery, melding imagination with science to create an artistic expression.   Today, my work strives to challenge the viewer's interpretation of what they see on the exhibit or gallery wall and how they synthesize photography and art. The photographs require study to understand what they are, what medium is used, and what processes were employed to create them. For example, in the series Photographic Impressionism, every image is as-shot yielding a photograph that is mysterious and occasionally identifiable. In the Photo Anagram Image Series, the photographs are based on a mathematical algorithm that sequences a single source image of any type or subject into unexpected geometric patterns, forms and shapes.  My work explores the visual psychology of interpretation from what we observe.

 

With the exception of the Liquid Flowers Series, the images that I make are drawn from everyday life, in the moment, often on the sidelines of our peripheral vision that often go unnoticed.  Here, in the obscured boundary of our sight, is another reality adjacent to the one of direct experience.  The photographs are fleeting and momentary.  They appear, then vanish in a heartbeat.  By shifting my attention to this “other” reality, I witness a motion picture in time and space.  As I watch a public space with intriguing interest, I am drawn into the visual experience seeing a fresh vision of what is around me.  It is this visual observation that is expressed through my artwork as I capture what often goes unseen. By presenting the viewer with a different interpretation of a subject I hope to bridge their natural biases, thus, educating the viewer to a different means to visualize their own environment and what they see to bring a deeper experience into their everyday lives.