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Seascapes, from the ongoing Infinity series, is re-photographed collage made seamless by setting the camera's focusing ring on infinity. This sleight of hand allows me to combine and blend found photographs of the ocean in new ways, creating images which are loosened from their moorings in reality as they drift into abstraction.
My vision is of an imagined moment: opening one's eye after a nap in the sand and squinting into the glare; walking by a window and spying the distant ocean; coming over a dune to see an expansive view; catching an eyeful of salt spray in the surf. It is a moment in time when one is caught off guard, momentarily disoriented by the intensity of color and light, and suddenly overwhelmed by the power and beauty of the sea.
By using extreme blur to strip images of specific reference or viewpoint and reduce them to blended planes of color, I distill my vision of the sea until the subject becomes color and light itself. Seascape is a study of detail: what happens when the jewel-like hues of emerald, sapphire and turquoise are juxtaposed against the eye-popping colors of towel, umbrella, spinnaker and pennant. It is through abstraction, simplification and reduction that I hope to capture an essence of the sea.
At the same time the vision is timeless and open ended. My photographs are meditative pieces, contemplations of the vastness of the ocean and the transcendent quality of light -- glimpses into a world of pure color, beyond our focus, beyond our ken.
rays of I hope to capture the essence of the sea without a I hope captures the essence of the sea without referring to a specific the illusion of an integrated image conjure a vision of the sea that hovers between the real and the abstract. I made these images in my New York city apartment on rainy April afternoons--and longed for summer and the east end.
By collaging and extreme de-focusing I hope to capture an essence of the sea that captures the light, color and radiance of the ocean.
My vision is of an imagined moment: opening one's eye after a nap in the sand and squinting into the glare; walking by a window and spying the distant ocean; coming over a dune to see an expansive view; catching an eyeful of salt spray in the surf. It is a moment in time when one is caught off guard, momentarily disoriented by the intensity of color and light, and suddenly overwhelmed by the power and beauty of the sea.
By using extreme blur to strip images of specific reference or viewpoint and reduce them to blended planes of color, I distill my vision of the sea until the subject becomes color and light itself. Seascape is a study of detail: what happens when the jewel-like hues of emerald, sapphire and turquoise are juxtaposed against the eye-popping colors of towel, umbrella, spinnaker and pennant. It is through abstraction, simplification and reduction that I hope to capture an essence of the sea.
At the same time the vision is timeless and open ended. My photographs are meditative pieces, contemplations of the vastness of the ocean and the transcendent quality of light -- glimpses into a world of pure color, beyond our focus, beyond our ken.
rays of I hope to capture the essence of the sea without a I hope captures the essence of the sea without referring to a specific the illusion of an integrated image conjure a vision of the sea that hovers between the real and the abstract. I made these images in my New York city apartment on rainy April afternoons--and longed for summer and the east end.
By collaging and extreme de-focusing I hope to capture an essence of the sea that captures the light, color and radiance of the ocean.
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Seascapes was made in a New York city apartment during one of the coldest, dreariest springs in recent memory, after an interminable winter. The mood was one of longing --a reflection upon the lost joys of past summers-- mixed with a tinge of hope kindled by the prospect of summer's return.
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