The imagery I work with is wide-ranging. My exploration in the Alternative Photographic Process allows me to blend my painting background with my love of photography and push boundaries making new discoveries.
As an Artist living in the High Desert, landscape, sunrises, sunsets and rain are for me, experienced as paintings in the sky.
Currently I am working on cameraless images of Chemigrams and Lumen prints. These images are created from my early morning meditations overlooking the landscape; having a painterly involvement including marks made by hand. Some works contain an oval, while others an arch. The arch throughout the world represents new beginings. For me these images signafy something new, a dawn, a rebirth. Every mark, every line drawn is like today, just today, as the sun emergages over the horizon, is my outlook to start fresh and begin again.
With every sunrise moving toward sunset, I yearn for the days of rain. Oftentimes, I find myself not being aware of its absence until the seasonal rains flood the ground in my otherwise arid desert home. As the world warms, the annual early summer Monsoons have become more and more irregular.
On the rare occasion when the much welcomed soft and gentle maternal rains fall, I feel salvation from the deep parched cracks in the earth and a time of quite renewal.
The series of transfers over prints depict a craving for rain, a balance in our warming climate. The memory of rain and the hunger for the long awaited cleansing downpour take center stage in these works.
Every sunrise carries us to seasons changing, time progresses, and my skin grows old; leading me to the Aging Lily series, where life’s progressions are illustrated through the fading flower. This illustration of time passing personifies loss of friends, family or loved ones. Memories remain, like the aging lily bloom, but the end is always the same: life is gone, but a whisper of beauty remains.