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My work is primarily mixed-media and photography. I am influenced by my professional work experience in architectural drafting, graphic design and construction project management. Out of that mix, I see a universe of shapes and textures around me. I use my camera to record what I see. My influences are Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Ellsworth Kelly and Piet Mondrian.
I have created series of works using asphalt and stone. I am attracted to both the degraded crumbling street and the jet-black freshness of a newly paved parking lot. I have also taken clam shell bits from Atlantic beaches, coated them in luminescent paint and arranged them in mosaic circles and squares. By day, these pieces absorb available light and by night they emit a glow which lasts until daybreak. I have even stripped 65 years-worth of paint from the shutters of my home, taken their crinkled ribbons and created a series called “RECLAMATION”.
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I have been to Terezin in the Czech Republic, a huge 18th century military fort/prison converted to an internment center by the Nazis in WWII, where thousands died - mostly women, children and artists. A veritable ghost town today, I felt their presence as I walked the empty streets photographing the faded colors and the crumbling textures of the buildings. I decided that I must do a series of mixed-media works to recall what I had felt and seen.
Most recently, I have created a series of colorful mixed-media works exploring the influence of the structural grid and the order and harmony it brings to our everyday lives.
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