Fiddle Diddle With Red Bean

“It is my habit to crush or cut up waste materials before discarding them and often I throw some of that material onto my studio work table just to see what serendipitous visual surprises I may discover. If what I see holds my attention I photograph it. By chance among the objects on the table the day the Fiddle Diddle Series was photographed were several different gauges of wire, a rubber gasket, assorted pieces of thin plastic and several bits of cellophane food wrappers including the red bean image. The light passing through and around this odd assortment of objects held them together in an engaging way. I photographed the random grouping then shook the pad to see if the effect held in a new arrangement. It did, so I photographed them again and repeated the process several times… occasionally adding and or discarding objects as I proceeded… ending with this enchanting series whose visual appeal transcends its social statement about our consumer-centric society and concentrates on the illusive ingenuous rhyming fantasy within the chaos . . . or to put it another way . . . bordering on restrained hysteria, red bean traverses the margins, crisscrossing and navigating through the peripheries beyond the frontiers of stabile equilibrium surmounting edges, stretching frames, and expanding limits . . . in pursuit of tolerant, all-inclusive blissfully balanced grace." Note: each image I create is limited to ten archival pigment prints per size, signed and numbered verso.