Figure Study

oil on canvas
16x20 inches

Roof and Trees

gelatin silver print

Corner

gelatin silver print

Multiple Prints from One Negative

gelatin silver prints

Figure Studies

oil on canvas
8x10 inches each

Chair

oil on canvas
5x7 inches

Wires, Branches & Planes

inkjet prints from 35mm b&w print film

Mixing Color on Film

some double exposures I made last year.

House

gelatin silver print






"Surrealism lies at the very heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very creation of a duplicate world."
-Susan Sontag, 'On Photography'

Houses and Wires

gelatin silver print

"For me, photographs of landscape (urban or country) must be habitable, not visitable."
-Roland Barthes, 'Camera Lucida'

Building and Plane

gelatin silver print
"Since the photograph is pure contingency and can be nothing else (it is always SOMETHING that is represented) [...] it immediately yields up those 'details' which constitute the very raw material of ethnological knowledge."
-Roland Barthes, 'Camera Lucida'

Walls and Wires

gelatin silver prints

Building; Bird, Tree and Wires

gelatin silver prints

House and Airplane

gelatin silver print

House with Wires

gelatin silver print





"But we worldly men have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes..."
-Titus Andronicus

Building with Wires and Trees

gelatin silver print


"The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: 'There is the surface. Now think - or rather feel, intuit - what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.'"
-Susan Sontag, 'On Photography'

Wall and Fence with Ivy, Wires, and Tree

gelatin silver print

Airplane and Wires

gelatin silver print

Airplane and Wires

gelatin silver print





"The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what's in the picture."
-Susan Sontag, 'On Photography'