Reflected originates from my experience last summer recovering from serious spine surgery. While on vacation in Provincetown, I needed to relax a large portion of the time and sat on the terrace by our room and started taking a lot of photos. After noticing a reflection on the glass top coffee table, I was immediately engaged and started placing objects on the table and shooting the reflections. Soon, I had taken hundreds of photos.
After we returned home, I was very interested in photographing reflections, and going to my studio was still difficult. While at home, I started setting up little tableaus using old photos I had collected, household objects, and a selection of mirrors. This show is the result of those investigations.
A few months later, at my studio, I then made black and white image transfers of my photos onto Arches 88 paper with solvents and an etching press. Pastels were used to add color and emotional tone to each piece. When combined with the solvents, the pastel colors could bleed and blend together in a very beautiful way.
By using my own photography, this show stretched me beyond my usual comfort zone and manner of working; but much of my personal style still comes through. I love the old images I worked with, and the people in them. I think that the humanity in these humble and ordinary photos comes through clearly, and is the core of this body of work.