My work is an amalgam of painting, photography & technology. During the early and mid 1960’s, I painted compulsively. I realized my vision going beyond what I could do with paint, and I decided then to adopt light as my principal medium. This decision has guided me in an ongoing investigation now spanning decades.
Here are 6 photographs part of a larger series of images shot in the studio. Each of these images is a photo of six different still life sets built to emphasize light rather than the objects I used to build them. I meant to fully isolate and work with just the properties of light itself. I used a compound camera – something like a precision view camera – joined with a digital camera. I setup the camera for close-up photography and used its rear-standard shift to create 20 tiled exposures of each still life set. These were manually blended to create each starting image which I reworked over a period of days to weeks.
The process combines sudden discovery with gradual refinement combining photographic, painterly and computational techniques. Though the process isn’t about objects, traces of them sometimes appear and lend a question of realism to these abstractions
