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The Galleries:  New work-in-progress.
 As a symbol water is very potent. If for no other reason than that it is the one thing we know is absolutely necessary for the very existence of life. Working with water as a subject presents certain challenges photogenically and since the pictures were all made in the studio, mechanically too. Optically dynamic, water is transparent, reflective and refractive. It "mirrors" and "lenses." In a sense we don't actually "see" water. We see what water does to what is in it or under it or reflected by it. A challenge for me was to analyze the "optics" of water and learn to control and appreciate them in order to create the image I had in mind, whether it was to mimic nature convicingly or create an entirely other-worldly effect.
 Images from the Water Series are full of very fine detail. In order to approximate what can be seen in an actual print this gallery allows you to "click" through to more and more detail.
 Water-Colors, large-scale prints of watery fields where color is the subject.
 "Large-format photography has the unique characteristic of being able to present a viewer with the most elaborate visual evidence. Careful control of the elements of a picture, though entirely fabricated, can allow tensions, contradictions, even incredible conditions to exist coincidentally. To affect perception so convincingly as to be able to create "realities," impossible though they may seem is one of the great powers of photography as a medium..." from the artist's statement. |
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