This work brings me back to the photograms I made in the darkroom as a beginning photographer and the studies of form that I’ve made with a camera creating abstract photographs of buildings, lampshades, ductwork . . . anything. The additions of photo-collage and scanning have enabled me to take my love of abstraction in a new and more complex direction. I feel as if I have come full circle, but with new information, as these newest images have seeds in my earliest work (If you would like to see samples of my earlier work visit the “Abstractions” portfolio).

For this new series of images I have chosen titles that borrow terminology from other art forms: poetry, literature, dance and music. The cross-pollination from other genres seems an appropriate pairing with these images that are more about the act of art-making than about a specific subject. I believe that art forms other than my own inspire, challenge and inform me thereby helping me to create the space in which I make my own work.