Description from my website
The manipulated images are contained in the Constructed Images, Painted Images and Triptych, Interiors and Plastic Form portfolios.
Common to all of these portfolios of pictures is the intent to manipulate the ordinary objects of our everyday visual experience in order to extrapolate the emotional effect these objects have on us. What most of us see on a daily basis is not the few pictures in our elite art galleries. It is the utilitarian world.
I live in a city, the surfaces are hard edged, reflective, blank, geometric, eroded and like outcrops of cement and rebar form canyons of light. Entwined in the buildings and structures is the blur of people and cars and trucks.
I photograph surfaces, utility constructs as well as people. By manipulating these images I extract from them the way they make me feel and I suppose the way these cold obelisks of utilities and walls makes other people feel.
The people I photograph move within the city as they are relegated to the urban utilitarian landscape.
This group of pictures, in the Constructed Images and Chicago portfolios, includes both the reconstructed and abstracted imagery extracted from the city’s surfaces and people. They depict a pose and form is no less mechanized than the city ‘s structure. So, although one set is abstracted and the other literal, they are affiliated.
