Paint

Methods

To make some of my Paint pictures I use fast flash exposures to freeze the paint liquid. These photographs show that substance on its way to drying -a stage that finished paintings can never retain. I also use other lighting sources pointed in a low angle to increase the raking light effects on the thick paint surface. Other times I shine light via flash or flashlights toward small areas of the painting to vary the tonal range of the composition and suggest a moment of light happening on the surface. In some cases, the work is the outcome of my making multiple exposures which photographically blends a segment of one painted surface with a section of another in still mysterious results to me. - I like the translucent and geometric visual marriages achieved with this method. Because what I am making are not “paintings” in their own right I ‘m able to quote and crop discrete small paint details to make them have big roles in the final picture. The digital back of my camera has the capacity to render things in highly detailed ways- This descriptive feature is important to me to have as I want to show paint in real and solid ways. 

I should point out that in other work from the past I have used ink to make Cliche Verre pictures I have also mixed in paint and clay to construct some of my Flowers for Lisa photographs. My images, that often give the appearance of being pure paintings, are really the product of events when photography and paint meet to form something different. It’s still early for me to say what this work is about or where it’s going but, in what I have made so far, I have found a thrilling unknown pleasure that makes me want to do more.