I began taking pictures when I was very small using my grandmother’s Polaroid Land Camera. The first pictures I “made” were close ups of my toys in the grass around my home. I bought my first professional camera, a Nikon F2, when I was 21 and used it, among others, until a few years ago when I had the chance to use a professional grade digital camera. Suddenly all the technical processes I’d learned about making pictures – exposure, development, printing – were available to me on my laptop. The ability to create serious photography without an expensive, noxious darkroom was exhilarating.
As a portrait photographer I try to capture honest, unguarded images of the person. The sort of look a close friend or lover might see. In my fine art pieces I love to find an object or a scene so mundane and common most folks walk right by. But I take it apart, isolate some element from the background and create a new way of looking at it.
Painting is a creative process I’ve come to recently. I try to let my painting be emotional and abstract. Being a photographer affords me opportunity to make representational images. When I paint I try to let that go and allow the forms and colors to reflect my subconscious.
My motivations are to come to an understanding of my life. Well that’s what we all want for the most part isn’t it? Science is how my view of the world is built. Science is about understanding the reality of the universe I live in. As an artist I find myself looking at things a little differently, wondering what’s behind or underneath something. I see art as a deconstructive process, taking the reality of the world, taking it apart, breaking it down into pieces. Curiosity is fundamental to science too, of course. But an artist will take an understanding of something, deconstruct it, play with the pieces and put them back together in some completely different way not necessarily bound by current understanding or convention. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Science provides new palettes and medium for artists to work in. Artists play, push and test things to push the science. It’s a convenient arrangement.
About Me
I began taking pictures when I was very small using my grandmother’s Polaroid Land Camera. The first pictures I “made” were close ups of my toys in the grass around my home. I bought my first professional camera, a Nikon F2, when I was 21 and used it, among others, until a few years ago when I had the chance to use a professional grade digital camera. Suddenly all the technical processes I’d learned about making pictures – exposure, development, printing – were available to me on my laptop. The ability to create serious photography without an expensive, noxious darkroom was exhilarating.
As a portrait photographer I try to capture honest, unguarded images of the person. The sort of look a close friend or lover might see. In my fine art pieces I love to find an object or a scene so mundane and common most folks walk right by. But I take it apart, isolate some element from the background and create a new way of looking at it.
Painting is a creative process I’ve come to recently. I try to let my painting be emotional and abstract. Being a photographer affords me opportunity to make representational images. When I paint I try to let that go and allow the forms and colors to reflect my subconscious.
My motivations are to come to an understanding of my life. Well that’s what we all want for the most part isn’t it? Science is how my view of the world is built. Science is about understanding the reality of the universe I live in. As an artist I find myself looking at things a little differently, wondering what’s behind or underneath something. I see art as a deconstructive process, taking the reality of the world, taking it apart, breaking it down into pieces. Curiosity is fundamental to science too, of course. But an artist will take an understanding of something, deconstruct it, play with the pieces and put them back together in some completely different way not necessarily bound by current understanding or convention. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Science provides new palettes and medium for artists to work in. Artists play, push and test things to push the science. It’s a convenient arrangement.