ARTIST STATEMENT
PORTALS - CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY
In the midst of all our miseries, art lets us see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious. — David Hockney
I always start with photographs of aged architectural elements. The original photographs may be used whole, repeated or deconstructed, blended one upon another, forms ultimately emerging through translucency, imparting depth and light. Its inherent patterns revealed, a common object is transformed into previously unimagined landscapes.
My Portals series began with a dream I had in which I drew a circle in the sky with my finger and the stars aligned around it. I kept doing it over and over in disbelief as the stars continued to jump into place.
Although this was only a dream, I believe it says something about our primal connection with the circles we see all around us: our sun, the full moon, the constellations arcing overhead, cycles of birth, life, regeneration…the certainty of completion when a circle has closed. This is why I continually explore the circular form in the Portals series.
These ”portals” seem doorways to realms of resonance both ancient and new, unexplored and intimately familiar.