City Scapes

Growing up and living in the Pacific Northwest, I find my relationship with urban environments changed as I and the cities grew and aged. I am creating my own cityscapes from photographs made in Seattle, Vancouver BC, and Portland. My cityscapes have their own geometry, generating unique spaces and forms. My intention is to bring in themes of mystical places, realism, fantasy, and imagination to these invented cityscapes. Seen from different distances and angles, it is easy to find my relationship to these cities shifting. That relationship changed again with the winter 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Our world has been turned upside down. It is in this context I am interpreting and creating new work. I use cameras and points of view that force perspective changes and warp the environment. I combine photographs and elements of photographs to create new places. I use long exposures to remove the people and vehicles in motion from these spaces. This creates environments where the forms of the city become more organic when freed from our constraints of place and purpose.