Sobre el Artista

I am a photographer and printmaker who employs traditional as well as digital techniques, often mixing them (scanning or photographing part of a traditional print back as a layer of a digital print, using traditional intaglio techniques over a digital print, etc.). In my printmaking, I am trying to get in touch with emotions put straight on the print - my mind is quite overactive and I could spend weeks, months or longer trying to decide if it was "done" or not if I let myself! So thus the purposeful intent to put emotion straight to the work and let my emotions and subconscious be the arbiter without interference from my conscious mind. I employ textural, abstract, primitive and sometimes traditional drawing on the plate in my printmaking work. In my photography, I enjoy creating cinematic moods through lighting and placement. I am inspired by noir/neo-noir as well as abstract photography. In the end, if the viewer feels something when they see the image, then I consider it successful. I also am working toward sculpture via woodturning. I found out I really enjoy working with wood in a workshop I took and have become proficient at pen making and spindle work and am moving toward bowls and larger forms. I guess with a background in Physics and IT as well as Art & Design, there is a certain timeless feeling to working with wood and hand tools that appeals to me.