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 to make new discoveries.
As an Artist living in the High Desert, 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.
Currently, I am working on a body of work that depicts a craving for balance through a series of images of and about rain. The memory of rain and the hunger for the long awaited cleansing downpour take center stage.
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.