The imagery I work with is wide-ranging. Last year was devoted 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.
The first photographic process of the nineteenth-century is a non-silver technique, now known as Alternative Photography. Final images are as large as the negative. The negative is placed on top of artist paper that is coated with a light-sensitive chemical, placed in a contact frame, and then developed under ultraviolet light.
Currently, I am exploring diptychs and multiple exposures with and without pinhole images for an uplifting play of imagery. Utilizing newly rediscovered personal childhood drawings, combined with contemporary self-portraits, connecting the innocence of youth with a mature perspective.
Each image progresses from the one previous allowing for expansion of ideas and new possibilities.