Earlier Work

Predating my interest in the Webb telescope, I have long been fascinated by the visual impact of industrial structures, landscape and the interplay between architecture and nature. The built environment tells a story of interaction and flux. Just as the presence of a structure changes the land, the natural environment changes the structure. In “High Voltage Blue,” for instance, I manipulated the photographic image to explore these dynamic influences and the potential for metamorphosis. This duality informs all my work: a fundamental tension between realism (or description) and abstraction.

“Up Down Yellow Circle” and “Pentagon Hub” share some of the same formal and conceptual ideas: geometry, color as object, photorealism as abstraction. They traffic in another form of duality as well, contrasting the solid with the ephemerality of time and nostalgia.