Megalopolis

These images are drawn from my impressions of large metropolitan areas. The density and vibrancy of such urban spaces excites me, as they are crowded with buildings, signs, color, and lines in seemingly endless directions. Such work is intended to portray the allure of this city mass, atmosphere, and vitality. In a broader context, these photographs continue my interest in using multiple images to convey a unique perspective of time and place. There is serendipity inherent in my creative process of layering and blending pictures that is intoxicating and curious. In an unexpected way, it takes me back to the wonder, discovery, and magic of the darkroom when I first began exploring photography some twenty years ago. Rather than yielding the singular, detailed imagery common to conventional photography, this is abstract, fragmentary picture making that puts a primacy on rhythm, color, pattern, and repetition. Such interpretive photographs are no longer picture perfect portals into reality, but now depict a multidimensional perspective that expands our notions of the photographic instant and reorders the appearance of photographic space.