An artist, a photographer, evolving on the fly...
Passionate about the art and craft of photography, I was hooked when I saw my first image in print on a large format printer. It was the beginning of a journey learning to use photographic images as part of an artistic expression. As an image based artist I work with compositions and composited images (using more than one image to make a piece of art) and hand pull the print onto metal, wood, acrylic or ceramic to create individual works of art. Working in physical layers allows the viewer to attempt to separate the images as they walk around a piece and then put it all together from the front. I prefer images in the abstract because of the random nature of life. In the lack of perfect control of the transferring of images to other surfaces, I embrace the randomness of life and therefore, the randomness of the art and the artistic endeavor.
I still visit the documentary side of my curious nature of attempting to see the world through the eyes of others. Invited to work with students on a project in India through the integrative medicine program at Metro State College inspired me to do more of this work on a local level. A body of my documentary work resides in stories created for the History Colorado Museum as part of the Neighborhood series. Storytelling and listening to stories are part of our human DNA and I am delighted to continue working to help preserve these stories of everyday people for future generations.
Artist's Statement:
Photographer, printmaker, artist. I was drawn to the craft of photography as a way to explore the way things seemed in life and to learn the craft of working with light but then I fell in love with making prints. The world of printing on paper was fun, but after I was initiated into the world of alternative printmaking I knew I had found my passion.
The combination of photographic images and different print mediums all combining to become part of an expression in an artistic conversation became so intriguing that I have begun several series or conversations, as I like to think of them. Working primarily in camera using lenses to distort reality is one of those chats. As the hand pulled prints reveal their own characters it all provides endless entertainment in my studio. Working in physical layers I often work in an altered reality, preferring images based in abstraction because of the random nature they project of life. In the absence of control of transferring images to other surfaces. Fearlessly, or sometimes with trepidation, my fascination with challenging how we look at the photographic experience helps me embrace the randomness of both artistic endeavors and life .