Shredded
For years I had maintained a ready supply of shredded materials--personal papers, junk mail, old photographs, CDs/DVDs/CCs (who doesn't, right?)--with the intention of fleshing out any of the multitude of creative ideas for using shredded paper that had been rattling around my brain.
These photographs represent a sampling from the first such major exploration of shredded materials. Inspired by everyday observations and impressions, they were immediately motivated by my increasingly rapid purge of extraneous and re-obtainable materials in preparation for an impending change of venue. The images created are computer re-mastered photographs of shredded paper & plastic on canvas and printed on metal.
baked
"Baked" began one day when I attempted (quite in vain) to reduce the clutter of old pots & pans filling much of my kitchen storage space. As I began sorting it recurred to me that I had actually come to recognize and grow somewhat fond of the textures and patterns that had been baked on to many of them over the years (presumably why I'd hung on to them for so long). The thought that a lifetime of cookies could be represented and memorialized in the baked-on residue of a cookie sheet still kind of fascinates me. Combining and adapting a few techniques I'd been working with helped to create some intriguing baked-on patterns, textures and images on metal using cooking oils and other kitchen staples. These initial exploratory works are large-format digitally-colored photographs of baked cooking oil "paintings" on steel plates and are available in limited quantities as digital c-prints elegantly mounted on acrylic--please call or email for more information.
