Convergence

CONVERGENCE (2010)
It takes a while before I find a line, an edge, which has a power, a way of speaking, on its own. Once located, I go back, revisit. To be free to work, go beyond what is directly before me, I need to feel "comfortable" in the environment. Familiarity helps quiet my inner motors. My sensors search for the angle that I want. This is the beginning, the first step.

While shooting in the field. I can't know what will ultimately transpire. Once back in my studio, I'm interested in constructing, making something different out of the field images, finding a grace, a strength, a voice, which speaks from within the new form.

I have lost whatever the original image was. I feel like a sculptor, handling, turning, shaping, and bringing a new form out of the old. It is an inherent, driving, interest in building, which coaxes these images. The color, the light and the dark, the windows - am I looking out or looking in? -The play, the contradiction, the complexity of these different elements reveals life, which is not so simple, not so direct. It becomes more than an aesthetic; which is being examined. And, expressed.

BOX ON TIPPYTOE (2010) Came out of a call from a gallery in Houston, Texas. The gallery distributed wooden boxes to various artists, requesting that they create something else. 

This is my, "something else!"