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Artist’s Statement I love light, I love images and love to make and manipulate images. I am utterly fascinated by my immediate environment, built and natural. I can’t help but notice, and notice and notice; and record, and collect, and manipulate. My curiosity is endless. I detect the patterns in what I see and then I overlay my own patterns. All of these aspects play out in the imagery and techniques I use to make my art. I developed my current technique of printing images on paper and then assembling them into larger works as a means to express my reaction to what I see and collect. I start with photographs, digital or scanned. Multiple photographs, from multiple angles and distances, are made into a composition in Photoshop. I then print the composition onto many pieces of water color paper, which I physically collage together and paint on. Subsequent prints are collaged over what is there, a kind of “over-painting,” resulting in a densely layered piece with three dimensional qualities. From a distance the work has a unity, but, on close inspection, reveals a rich field of seams and overlays, drips and water marks. Three levels of marks are usually evident: computer generated, paper edges, and those inherent in the photographs. It is often an eye-pleasing game to distinguish among them. The overall image works on several levels:
as a composition, as a manipulation of paper and paint, and as a distillation
of an essence of the subject. It teases the eye and mind with distortions
of “obvious” images. My images are intended to make visible
the many layers of information embedded within. |