BFA - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - 1994
With practice and technological innovation, I have been able to capture the tiny details in very high resolution, allowing large, museum quality prints. But I haven't been satisfied with the serendipitous, process art. The DNA of the work creates clues of a puzzle to solve. Digital alteration allows representative photographs to sneak into the collages, along with coloration and digital drawing to end up with works that have been drawn by hand in physical works, then photographed, collaged, drawn on digitally, recombined, etc to find the solution. Ultimately the work is intuitive, but it is no longer random as I inform them with the sense of the surreal (though not in the Jungian dream or Dali sense) and hint at the representative. It is an exercise to solve the puzzle to find those things that are abstract, but at the edge of what we think we recognize. To find common patterns and tease tension from their juxtaposition with the digital and geometric, the process and the concept.