I create computer-based art using photography as a base, a product of a lifetime learning to do things differently. To see the world differently.
The colors and techniques of modern abstract art fascinated me from an early age. I wanted desperately to learn more, but there were no artists in the tiny farming village where I grew up to teach me. No one understood what modern art was, let alone why it was. But there was an appreciation for photography.
I began shooting with a 1960 model Agfa rangefinder fixed lens 35mm camera and learned to use darkroom techniques to enhance the image. Graduating to a single lens reflex camera I worked primarily with Kodachrome. Digital photography opened a new world. The computer became the artboard I never had; the darkroom I could never afford. I discovered there would never be a camera or a lens that could capture what I saw in my head – that, I had to create on my own.
I use the photograph the same way a painter uses a charcoal sketch – as a starting place. I squeeze out the unseen hiding between the pixels; the angels, the demons of my own imagination.
Light. Color. Darkness. Perspective. Introversion. Mystery. Love.
