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About the Work
My work utilizes digital technology to create and explore
new ways of seeing the human form and condition. These images are
generated from traditional photographs and manipulated into surreal
images which appear, at times, more as paintings than photographs. My
primary tools are an assortment of cameras, lenses, studio lights and a
Macintosh computer with Adobe Photoshop.
In these works, the human element is of utmost importance.
This work is an attempt to use the new technology of computer imaging in
a way which is of genuine aesthetic worth. A piece is finished only when
it says something of human emotion, beauty or experience.
In my earlier work, I was frequently bothered by my
photographs' inherent closeness to physical reality. Through the magic
of the computer, I am able to create images which come almost directly
from my mind. Their relationship to the objective world is diminished,
allowing greater subjectivity of expression. Thus, the work is more
personal, and more expressive.
These images contain modern paradigms of the nude form, as
well as more timeless portrait-like depictions of facial expression. The
expressionist influence evident in the work is also a result of the
synergy between human mind, camera and computer. All of these images are
resultant of numerous computer/human interpolations of the original
image, no one photographic method or lighting, no one programmed effect
was used to produce them. Several of the images required the creation of
unique algorithms which are used and then discarded without
documentation, thus insuring the uniqueness of these images.
The work emphasizes the soul or essence of the person
photographed, its oneness with nature, and its independence of spirit.
The nude form is used as a metaphoric representation of deeper
qualities... the personality, the intellect, the spiritual dimension, all
of which cannot be directly photographed.
This work is also about the future of humanity in an
increasingly more technology intensive society. The mind of humanity
enters the virtual plain of existence, while the human body is left
behind-- exposed, vulnerable, and frail in the real world. Like many
artists, I fear that technology may enamor us too much, taking us, as a
species, farther away from our natural state of being. It is my hope
that through a more human application of these technological tools, they
can actually help provide insights as to what it means to be
human.
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In these works, the human element is of utmost importance. This work is an attempt to use the new technology of computer imaging in a way which is of genuine aesthetic worth. A piece is finished only when it says something of human emotion, beauty or experience.
In my earlier work, I was frequently bothered by my photographs' inherent closeness to physical reality. Through the magic of the computer, I am able to create images which come almost directly from my mind. Their relationship to the objective world is diminished, allowing greater subjectivity of expression. Thus, the work is more personal, and more expressive.
These images contain modern paradigms of the nude form, as well as more timeless portrait-like depictions of facial expression. The expressionist influence evident in the work is also a result of the synergy between human mind, camera and computer. All of these images are resultant of numerous computer/human interpolations of the original image, no one photographic method or lighting, no one programmed effect was used to produce them. Several of the images required the creation of unique algorithms which are used and then discarded without documentation, thus insuring the uniqueness of these images.
The work emphasizes the soul or essence of the person photographed, its oneness with nature, and its independence of spirit. The nude form is used as a metaphoric representation of deeper qualities... the personality, the intellect, the spiritual dimension, all of which cannot be directly photographed.
This work is also about the future of humanity in an increasingly more technology intensive society. The mind of humanity enters the virtual plain of existence, while the human body is left behind-- exposed, vulnerable, and frail in the real world. Like many artists, I fear that technology may enamor us too much, taking us, as a species, farther away from our natural state of being. It is my hope that through a more human application of these technological tools, they can actually help provide insights as to what it means to be human.
