As an artist, I respond to and experiment with many different genres and mediums. I use photography as a starting point, finding ways to incorporate my photographs into every other medium in which I work. In everything I encounter, I look to see what could be, what could be represented, or how it can inspire me to create.
Sometimes artwork inspires me to re-create using new forms, whether those be photographs or something completely new. I prefer not to see something for what it is, but what it could represent, what I can take away from it, or what I can turn it into with a little imagination.
As far as the mediums I work with, I find it most fulfilling to create using my hands. The feeling of creating something is much more meaningful when it includes the senses of touch and smell, which is perhaps why I enjoy and am drawn to the darkroom as over digital art. This is also why I enjoy the art of paper and book arts as well as intaglio and ceramics. I find fulfillment in crossing mediums, from creating dioramas to document in series, to using photographs as basis or inspiration in metals and printmaking work. I find inspiration from a diverse group of artists, from traditional photographers such as Berenice Abbott, to the mixed media of David Hockney, as well as the dioramas and long exposure theatre images of Hiroshi Sugimoto.
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Images may be printed on canvas or matted and framed. Contact me for pricing and available sizing.
