Statement
Memento Mori--We too will die so we must try to live well. My goal is to try to make beauty where there often is none.
My mother's death propelled me to do my artwork with plants and flowers. She loved them.
My images are not advertising flowers. They're not perfect. I capture them in the moments where they've started to fade and die. At first look, they can be seen as ornamental but upon a closer look at the large prints, you'll see many imperfections such as smears, wrinkles, water spots, scratches and cracks..
I call the technique a Digital Photogram. To me, Photograms hold such an allure. The original materials sometimes aren't always immediately identifiable. Photograms characteristically have wonderful shallow depth of field. They're in focus and then blurred. I started making them in the darkroom, but then the possibility of digital scan came along, allowing much more flexibility for placement, editing, lighting, rearranging in size. I place flowers, plants and vegetables directly onto the scanner glass, use a backlight and then edit in Adobe Photoshop.
There's color and movement, texture, a sense of dance and movement, maybe floating. It's Beauty to me.
