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I work in digital collage, algorithmic art and vector art using a camera, a scanner and a computer. My source materials include my own photography as well as licensed stock photographs and timeless art of the past. Starting with scans, photographs and mathematical abstractions, I blend, combine and compose to create images that move me.   I’m make my work available as unique Monoprints, as Open Editions, and printed on clothes and other merchandise.   Because I create my art on a computer, there are no physical originals. I make very small editions and monoprints using laser printing on photographic paper or pigment printing on canvas, and sign them. These prints are the primary physical form of my work. These printing techniques produce fabulous images and that should last lifetimes if not exposed to direct sunlight. Each print is mounted for stability. I frame them without glazing because I prefer the prints to be immediate, not secluded behind glass. These prints are a durable media which can be handled with the same care you would use with a varnished oil painting. I also make proofs of each image, which are not for sale.

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Artist Statement   The mimetic tangle that is 21st century art is full of discoveries waiting to happen. Ever-increasing exposure to the art of many times and cultures leaves us surrounded by so many styles and techniques that it would be hard to accept any one dogma or system, any one answer to “What is Beauty?” or “What is Art?” The construction and manipulation of aesthetic systems is the great plastic medium of our time.   In the digital manipulation of fine art and photography, I’m exploring the relationship between collage, pop art and algorithmic art; a wilderness of possibilities. I process and combine images to create an image-space, which I explore and sample. It’s something like finding pretty shells on a beach, except that first I have to make the beach. I find a glimpse of something—a shell—then I compose and edit the image to capture that glimpse. Sometimes it works and I keep it. Sometimes it doesn’t, and I start again.   Some of my works are inspired by myths and stories. For others, I use a more abstract method of pure exploration. Working by experimentation and serendipity helps me explore aesthetic systems more freely.   I’m currently working on several techniques, each of which is represented in this portfolio. I collage from extreme close-ups of flowers and of the human form. I digitally sketch photographs into pop-oriented vector art. And I also use art that I’ve ‘found’ in the works of great painters. It has been common in recent decades for prominent artists to ‘find’ material in the output of lesser-known artists and designers. I reverse that process.

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Digital Collage Double Flowers (2005) detail Combining two or more images using computer software. Vector Art Urban (2004) detail Drawing with mathematical shapes instead of pixels or brush strokes. Algorithmic Art Twirl (2006) detail Making art using a program or algorithm rather than drawing or photography. Flower Portrait Lilly (2006) A photographic portrait of a flower with minimal editing on the computer.