digital archival photograph
8 x 9″
I have spent much of my adult life photographing. I shoot anything that interests me, but over the years I have developed several specific portfolios that deal with my observations of city and country life: Street Seen, Rain, Graffiti, Torn Elegance and Reflections (puddles, buildings, ponds, stores) to name just a few. I have tried to teach myself to be a constant observer, searching always for new ways to interpret the customary. I see beauty in puddles, and have spent a lot of time gazing at, or photographing through wet surfaces. I ask the viewer join me and contemplate how things are magnificently transformed when one is looking “through” water-whether via puddle or pond reflections, or by simply gazing at a wet window during a rainstorm. Observed this way, all is transitory and ephemeral—perhaps a surreal, alternate reality, if you allow yourself to be drawn in by it. In my “Street Seen” series, I explore the lines and shapes that have been created over time, due to the effects of weather, traffic and corrosion. These crossing lines, or walkways that have eroded, are open to literal, figurative or conceptual interpretations. For me, they are found abstract compositions. I isolate small portions, hoping that to present these ubiquitous markings from another perspective. In short, I search for the aesthetic possibilities in mundane things that are often overlooked by people rushing by. I consider that which passers by have seen/not seen a million times. I hope to transcend the “ordinary” of the commonplace, and afford the willing viewer an opportunity to contemplate the world in a fresh way.
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