Photography

'REFLECTION'

'REFLECTION'

Artistic Statement

Reflection has many meanings.
It may be a literal image—a likeness.
It may be thoughtful—both looking back and forward, considering, meditating and considering the past to form meaning of the present and thoughts for the future.
Reflection of light is sending, throwing and casting back.

How we are represented in person and in an image is complicated and often a balance of the various sides of reflection. What we see in the mirror is not necessarily how we feel and see ourselves. How others see us is what we project and reflect back towards the viewer….all of which is multi-layered and in constant flux.

We are made up of countless layers—variations of expressions, impressions, emotions and attributes—all continuously evolving as they interact with each other and our outside contacts. Despite the fluidity, there are often elements that ground us, providing time and/or place for us to stop and reflect...rest…and look forward.

'REFLECTION' incorporates visual anchors that provide boundaries to the visual space that welcomes the eyes to rest, move around and inspect elements in each of the moments making up the piece in more detail. Focus is encouraged to move around the X-Y axis as well as in and out along the Z axis.

The piece integrates movement as the representation of a journey’s fluidity, form in the genre of self as subject, color of grounding, change and hope, and elements symbolizing the impressions and outside forces impacting the journey and self.

LUMENS

LUMENS

Artistic Statement

Light breathes life into what it touches as well as taking it away.

Combining light and time, life is transferred from foliage to otherwise lifeless paper. As light touches the leaves, pollen, stems, and petals, its life is transferred from the foliage to the paper and new life is born. Over time, the photosynthetic tissue in the flowers dies and a new creation is breathed onto the paper.

'OCEAN LIFE: Power and Peace'

The ocean breathes life into us, and has the power to take life away

'DISCONNECTION'

'DISCONNECTION'

Artistic Statement

The world of those living with psychosis is multi-layered, oscillating between extremes of emotion, connection, disconnection, calm, fear, flights of ideas and paralysis—something I cannot necessarily understand fully not living with it myself. However, in my close relationship and efforts to understand and manage my relationship with one challenged with psychosis, there are many shared experiences and emotions, including unpredictability, fragility and disorientation.

'DISCONNECTION' is my attempt at expressing some of the experiences and emotions faced in efforts to hold onto, and secure, the frail and fragmented connections in our relationship, utilizing movement, layers, and colors to symbolize moods and states of mind—often conflicting.

The collection consists of 10 color images, digitally captured, and treated with carefully selected colors to differentiate each from the other, whilst collectively sharing an overall visual lying beneath the disconnected surface. Color saturation of the foreground overlay, background visual and the close proximity of the images in a salon style presentation are the elements unifying the piece

'BEAUTY BENEATH'

Finding beauty in unexpected places

'LIFE BEYOND THE CUT'

Portraiture

Photo Art

Water

Movement

Food

Architecture