As a student of traditional photographic working methods, I was trained to produce straight, unaltered prints from well-exposed and developed negatives. As my primary approach to image making, this visually specific framework for making art creates an interesting challenge: how to address content that is metaphoric in nature with images that are derived from a lens recording visual fact.
My other work is more experimental in practice. Scratching, drawing and painting on negatives and prints allows me to break the boundaries of the traditional photographic form and explore both subject matter and surface treatments that are not possible with conventional photographic processes. Working this way requires attending to opposites: merging lenticular-renderings with textured painterly abstractions and blending color with neutral grays in order to undermine photographic reality.
Fish, Silver Print, Oil and Wax on Board