The Anthropocene Blood Book, 2024, is a visual evocation of the un/reality of the Anthropocene, this time of steep decline in the planet initiated with the first atomic tests. The full series of digital art works along with an accompanying text can be found in the books section by clicking on the link: Anthropocene Blood Book
Trance of Thought, 2022-2024, explores how the human mind continuously repeats and embellishes personal narratives. Trance of Thought are large scale digital art photographs. Their making involves many layers of images and software applications. The resulting density of imagery reflects our contemporary experience of receiving fragmented waves of information, ideas, and images. The entire series of digital art works, along with an essay by Digital Arts Blog founder Cansu Peker, can be found in the Books section by clicking on this link: Trance of Thought,
Almost Arcadia, 2011-2018, is a series of photo-montage, digital art works that explore the origins of manifest destiny and the control of nature that has led to climate change in the United States, referencing the consequences of colonization. Yet it also envisions the promise of a return to the embrace of an Arcadia universe of peace and reconciliation. The entire series along with text can be viewed in the Books section in the volume Photographs, 2013- 2022, on page 116. Click on this link: Photographs 2013-2022
Wild Kingdom (2012-2015) is a series of images that employs backgrounds which are fictional, based on the wonderful dioramas from many different natural history museums around the United States. In Wild Kingdom I explore how people struggle to be in the moment, using smart phones, social media and other filters to distract themselves from an authentic engagement with their immediate environment. More of the series along with artist text on page 131 can be found by clicking here: Photographs 2009-2019
I would always have a photograph in the works that ended up in a portfolio named Tableaux Vivants (2009-2019). While the Fractures series is based on impressions, layered and montaged together by feel and instinct, the Tableaux Vivants images are more carefully constructed. When I look at them they are like pages of a journal; I can recall a personal history that informs the making of each. They cover a wide range of my story, my own form of social commentary, expressions of desire, hope, angers, anxieties, humor, and the distillation of the times I was living through. More of the series along with artist text can be found on page 77, by clicking here:
In 2005 I was one of the first digital photographers to intentionally work with the corruption or glitching of digital files. These abstracted and pixelated surfaces became starting points for me, allowing for numerous creative possibilities. From there I have built a body of work entitled Fractures (2009-2022), singular images informed by the unpredictable poetry of life and its irregular logic, utilizing my archival storehouse of photos shot over decades, processed in photoshop and incorporating the controlled accidents I affected with the ‘fractures’ of the digital files. The series along with an artist text, can be found on page 10 by clicking here: Photographs 2009-2019
