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I’m not overly fond of writing but I do like to have statements for all my photographic and printmaking series. When I’m in the artmaking process, it I find it easier to create when I understand the concept behind what I’m creating. I would say … Continue readingPosts
For me the destination is not as important as the adventure of the journey. That goes for my image making also. I’ve been trudging along a two-dimensional path in a three-dimensional universe. Several years ago, and purely by chance, I read a brief account of … Continue reading2D Universe
Using fabrication tools in printmaking… In much the same way I think photography adds detail and refinement to my prints, I also embrace the new makerspace technology. It has become yet another tool in my tool box. I love mixing digital into my hand work … Continue readingCutting Circles
In a Jar— I heard it on the radio, read it in a book, saw it on the internet It all started with Einstein’s brain in a jar. I heard this on the radio as I was walking out of the room. His brain ended … Continue readingEinstein’s Brain…
Tourism Laurie Simmons worked at one point in her career as a photographer for a dollhouse miniature company.[1] Then in 1984 after a trip to Greece and the Acropolis, she started photographing doll size “Teenettes” in front of blown up “bad” slides of traditional tourist … Continue readingEco Tourism
October, 2018 When in 1978 John Szarkowski, the head of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curated the show “Mirrors and Windows,” he divided the work two camps. The photograph could be defined as a mirror or a window. Where mirror was a … Continue readingFort Stanton Windows
—Drawing Light November, 2021 A friend recently told me that the Chinese characters for the word light are “chasing shadows.” And, the word “photography” comes from the Greek and means drawing light, or lines of light. It was Sir John Herschel, an astronomer, who coined … Continue readingChasing Shadows
Conspiracy, Contagion or Unkindness … Painting corvids during the time of Covid. Back in February, 2020, vaguely aware of a pandemic on the horizon I did not set out to do a Corvid series. I simply painted a raven because the small 3D printed raven … Continue readingCovid Corvids