DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
This medium has played a largely utilitarian role in my life, providing fast and easy imaging for use in larger projects like my graduate work and across a variety of rendering techniques like bleach stencils and glass etching. I hesitate to invest much time solely in point-and-shoot photography for expressive exercises mostly because of its current over-proliferation - I'm not sure if the 21st Century has rekindled the medium or exhausted it. But I still shoot on occasion, and gradually more images will find a home here.
Monument to a Distant Human Origin, Valley of Fire, NV 2021. I spent my birthday hiking around this extraordinary state park, and at one point found myself over a boundary line by accident, attracted to this rock formation that vaguely resembles a human bust from this angle specifically. It was a timely discovery, having watched Prometheus on the flight out of Philadelphia.
ADRIFT SERIES
"Adrift" is an ongoing project featuring various midnight seascapes. It began years ago as a trial of my then-new DSLR, utilizing the specific characteristics of the Delaware Bay with artificial lighting just over the horizon so no land is visible but the lighting is still effective. As I shoot I'm thinking about the relationship between meditation and the increasing clarity of subtle distinctions, the night as something both cloaking and revelatory, and coastal regions being famous for population density and property value but the sea being something as seductive as it is inhospitable - here it's worth noting that the dangerous allure of the mythological siren song is not to open water but rather landfall. Tones range from somewhat hellish to ambiguous to rather promising, and whether distant signs of life are approaching or receding or simply passing by is open to imagination.
