These images mainly come from my mountaineering experiences in the U.S., Alaska, Canada, Peru, Bolivia, Russian Siberia, and Tajikistan as well as from my garden tours throughout the United States
I generally work on a several images at a time, often unified by a creative idea – which then emerges as one of my current mountain expressions series. My work reflects the pulsing colors, shadows, light
movement that I acquired in my stage lighting experiences and mountain photography. My images dance, continually unfold, reveal hidden nuances, and make metaphysical statements about my world. I want my colors’ unusual juxta-positioning not only to bathe but also to seduce the viewer - to force a reintroduction to the way the world can be understood. Using Photoshop CS4, I manipulate my camera files to achieve movement, texture, color, shadow play, and the illusion of three-dimensional depth – the end result of which, I term “derivative” work. My manipulation involves extensive use of layering, filtering, isolating elements of layers, imbuing layers with depth, embossing, texturing, patterns, etc. Each layer is set to balance with previous layers until the image acquires an expression that I can live with. Many images fuse unexpected illusions and contain many layered textures and photos. This is essentially how this current series arises. My photos turn derivatively ‘surrealistic / abstract’ when digitally composited, color augmented, layered, textured, filtered on my computer. Printed on metallic photo paper to enhance color, each limited edition image is laminated between UV filtering acrylic and another opaque layer of acrylic.
