Artist’s Statement

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Give this letter to the woman you will stay with after me.  The one you will grow old with. Do not open this.  

 

My work is narrative in nature and I tell stories through pictures.  The still image frees my story from the constraints of time and allows passage from the present to both the future and the past.  The works from Give this letter to the woman you will stay with after me.  The one you will grow old with. Do not open this.  It is for her are based on an actual letter that I received from the now deceased Barbara.  I will never divulge the precise content of the letter, but in it she describes her visions of our meeting over tea, which has happened, is happening now and will happen in the future, forever. She had these visions while she was alive and she left them in a letter for me to find after her passing.  These pictures describe the framework and energy of our meetings.

 

TECHNICAL STATEMENT

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Each image is made up of many more digital photographs or paintings that I combine, paint and collage on the computer.   I use a number of techniques, including a modified version of high dynamic range photography (HDR) with which I merge many photographs using different exposure settings, but also with different content.  I further correct exposure by hand and add parts of different photographs, in some cases so it appears like a collage and in other cases so it seems as if the content was there when it was shot.  I finish off many of the works by using digital paint tools to add texture, color or to give a different feeling to the picture.  The images are printed using special archival watercolor paper and inks on high-end printers with custom profiles.