Urban Street Creatures
From a more narrative context my work evolves toward the exploration of privacy and intimacy juxtaposed with the public domain in which we live. The process begins with research and collection, which usually involves much walking with a camera stashed and ready. The result is a studio that resembles a museum of urban detritus. I sometimes make photographic transfers from photos I've taken, and incorporate them, along with other modes of technology and found materials, with traditional painting methods
The impulse, I believe, arises from observation of the human predicament revealed through the disparate and often unexpected: anonymous spills, droppings, and stains on a sidewalk that hint at human and animal forms; crushed cans; lost gloves; markings in uncured concrete. Recalling primitive imagery, these random objects and images of the city serve, for my purposes, as archaeological evidence of habitation.
These constructions, in particular their rootedness in common though overlooked markings, are continually transforming toward the iconic. In that spirit I have catalogued this series under the category of Urban Street Creatures. Ultimately I want to explore the inexplicably visual dimensions that might reveal our transitory, vulnerable lives.