ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Modern Architechture
Polished steel, aluminum, glass, shape, form, symmetry, asymmetry, structure, chaos.
The mirrored surfaces of these structures reflect the surrounding world, both man-made and nature. They are monuments to mankinds’s technology, prowess, and progress and speak of this man’s desire for order in an ever changing world of chaos.
These images are all hand coated platinum/palladium prints. Some are made from in-camera negatives and others from digitally enlarged negatives from scanned film. Every print is hand made. The paper is coated, dried, and printed one at a time. Although technically a photographic process, I view making platinum/palladium prints as a true printmaking process. I believe it is the most beautiful of the photographic processes providing depth and scale in the images unmatched by traditional black and white silver gelatin materials. The artist’s hand is a part of every print and all of these are the reasons I choose to work in this medium.