Artist Statement

I’m not a painter…

In spite of the fact that you are viewing many of my works, which are primarily created using oil paints, I don’t consider myself a painter. I think of myself as a communicator, like a speechwriter, newspaper reporter, orator, or even in some aspects, a politician. I compose my ideas and try to present them in a manner that others can experience the way I feel while creating the composition. But where a speechwriter or reporter uses words to ply their trade, I am an artist, therefore I use the language of imagery to state my feelings and opinions. This imagery may vary from photography, to painting with realism, to figurative abstract, or even involve elements of found-object collage and assemblage. It may also vary from simple emotions like joy and contentment to more complex feelings such as fear, love and sadness. It is the process of communicating my ideas that is important more than the media used. In fact, it is the creative process of the communication that is important to me. While I am working on a piece, I am emotionally tied to it to the point of distraction. It becomes the sole focus of what I am doing. However, when I bring a piece to completion, the emotional attachment dissolves. I don’t feel the post partum effect that some artists talk about as much as I feel as though I’ve committed a captured moment of my essence and released it to the ether. The way a spoken word floats ever outward into space.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

squash bouquet


Squash Bouquet
12 x 15 silverprint b/w photograph

This is part of a series of black and white photos that I did with an autumn theme. I wanted to do something seasonal yet with a twist. So I took the usual floral and still life and combined them using the popular fall vegetables such as butternut squash, zucchini and a small pumpkin (and a cucumber which found it's way in somehow). This photo was taken on 100 iso Kodak T Max film with a Nikon N 65 camera. Developed in Dektol and printed on Ilford fibre paper.
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