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My objective as an artist is quite simple: to find beauty and joy in the manipulation of forms, colours and textures in a playful, musical dance that celebrates our ordinary world. My attitude toward the visual arts is that it is the visual equivalent of music. When I am composing, I am usually listening to Jazz and I work the same way as Jazz musicians, improvising as I go along without any predetermined goal in mind. As a result, I am always surprised by the images that emerge and I feel more like a spectator taking snapshots along the way rather than the creator.

This is the joy in my work, meditating on the evanescent character of the forms and colours as they emerge on my screen.

My process is to take images from my digital camera and work on them with Adobe Photoshop and Jasc Paintshop Pro, manipulating them to the point where they are no longer recognizable as everyday objects.

Then the fun begins. I use a cutout technique to select interesting parts of the manipulated image, drawing the cutout with the select tool. this selection is then pasted onto a background image and then moved around into the position that is the optimal place on the painting for it. This process is repeated for many iterations with snapshots of the most interesting steps saved to disk for later publishing to on-line web galleries.

I am very interested in the challenge of creating movement in a 2D static medium. This movement is a dance of the visual elements in the image. I aim for a busy dynamic, which thrills my heart with joy whenever it works. Playful happiness is the goal that I am always working toward.

Etude

2007
New Media
51 x 41

Ghost in the Machine

2007
New Media
51 x 41

Glass Wall

2007
New Media
51 x 41

Plug

2007
New Media
51 x 41

Sunday Morning Sidewalk

2007
New Media
51 x 41

Ti-Pi-Tin

2007
New Media
51 x 41

Conformity

2007
Giclee
41 x 51