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Creating camera-less art in a darkroom I revisit the wonder of photography's invention and process. Merging current technologies with deep-rooted photographic practices, I use light emitting devices to brush color into form across light-sensitive paper. A unique approach to the production of photographic art, I do not document an existing image but rather, like a painter, generate an original one. Manipulating color, intensity and direction of light, I literally paint with light. No enlarger, camera or computer is used in the creating of my art making each piece produced a unique work.
In line with my one of a kind artwork I choose nature as an analogous subject. With no two flowers ever being exactly alike I bring to light the intricate textures and details through careful arrangement and layering. I deepen the notion of exceptional nature as a mirror of exceptional human nature; providing a catalyst for the human imagination to engage with questions surrounding the nature of life and death, on the mortal constraints of all people, and the finite boundaries of the human body.
Flowers exhibit a transitory beauty, an ephemeral symbol of mortality that illustrates the passage of time. With buds reaching to the sky, roots plunging deep in the earth, and a stem planted firmly in between, flowers dwell in three worlds and offers a link between heaven, earth and underworld. Flowers take on the appearance of death in the winter, only to sprout anew with the return of spring. In this way, flowers are a powerful symbol of resurrection. Revealing the death-rebirth mystery, flowers serve to illuminate the human life cycle.
I invite viewers to contemplate the fragility of existence and the prospect of the afterlife from multiple points of view; reminding viewers that death is an unavoidable part of life, something to be prepared for at all times. But also reminding viewers of something startling and important: life is meaningful, temporary, and sacred.
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I am an artist working with light, combining contemporary & archaic processes to push the bounds of conventional photography.
In this blog I share information & images about my process, installations of my artwork, & more.
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