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Since starting my career as a custom print expert and a
comercial photographer in the 70’s, working for labs such as the original
Gittings, Meisel, and Houston Photoimaging, to name a few, I’ve been able
to combine my personal artistic background using both traditional and
contemporary techniques to achieve and sometimes extend the boundaries of an
original idea. I’ve come to realize sometimes through manipulation of
line, form, color, texture, and composition, a much-heightened visual
expression could be achieved. Moreover, images that originally started out as a
random idea, but as soon as you engage in choices like which element goes with
which either consciously or subliminally, you become aware of how the elements
can work together. Often what results is a visually dynamic statement that
transcends the glibness of more traditionally crafted images.
Part of being an artist is being receptive to new ideas.
While many of my images appear photographic in nature, I personally don’t
believe it necessarily has to be. By sometimes dipping into another visual
world, you can be motivated into breaking out of the conformity that tends to
blight so much photography. Part of the art is to see the potential of
combining different elements and see how they can be woven into a challenging
and new reality. That’s one reason why I like revisiting old files,
chromes, and negatives. At times I became aware of a new image potential where
I once thought mundane, by introducing other mediums, which can make the new
image appear far richer and visually more exciting when a variety of tools are
used.
As a photographer, I am always seeking an individual way
of responding to the visual world, and this is not always done through the
conventional photographic processes. By looking outside of photography, I have
become aware of achieving images that are individually unique and at times a
much richer reflection of a personal vision. |
