The Asian Series

The Asian Series began with a trip to the Huangshan Mountains in China. High in the mountains the clouds roll in enveloping the landscape in heavy fog, obscuring much of the view, and creating a soft, mysterious enclosed space around the viewer. This spoke to me in a very personal way. As I photographed the mountain pines, often standing inside a cloud, I noticed that they reminded me of ink brush paintings, which brought back memories of Asian landscape painting that, in turn led to making specific formal choices, that would give my images an Asian reference. In subsequent travels in the Far East, and in my home environment of Connecticut, I saw my surroundings in a different, more personal way, and applied that same aesthetic to more familiar landscapes. Many of the images have fog, haze, clouds or water in them. This reflects my long-standing interest in focusing on interfaces of various kinds that come between the subject and the viewer, that serve to obscure and distort, hide and reveal. What in life can we ever see and know clearly? For me, the photographs denote a personal, intimate space, as they recall moments in the past whose outlines have been softened by the passing