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This work attempts to explore visually and poetically, what 
can only be understood mathematically and cannot be seen by the eye at all.
 
 After a career of photographing people, places and things, I rediscovered my interest in abstraction, as well as a delight in exploring the place where physics and eastern philosophy intersect. These images are not illustrations; rather they explore such statements as “It has been concluded that the visible universe represents only a small part of the universe. The rest is formed by an invisible substance called dark matter. It’s existence has been suggested by experimental evidence, yet it’s characteristics remain unknown.”
These images, particles or pearls tossed across the cosmos, wonderlands of theory, are an attempt to translate that theory into poetic imagery.
The work consists of archival pigment prints sized up to 51x35, and painted and worked aluminum with transparencies.

" Morality Tales" are a series of transparencies and paint on worked aluminum.
....and I supose that is where my visual stories begin;  with a photograph of mine, a setting, or a person and then a metaphorical story emerges, collaged and painted, and carved into the aluminum.

The works in“Morality Tales” are an ongoing commentary about man’s folly; personal, political and environmental, and my attempt  to illustrate the things we humans grapple with confronting our human dilemmas.

For many years I was an independent , commercial photographer. I did documentary, editorial and institutional work; a career that allowed me into many worlds, and I was free to roam, to find the story. . Now, I use the photographic image less as I make my stories, relying more on drawing,hand work and allowing the work to inform me. 

 
This series began on a train ride through the olive orchards in Spain and was expandes to include other landscapes.. I handpainted the basic photographs .

In China I took eight photographs of goldfish swimming, swirling and swarming for food.  Recalling Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", I combined those images 13 different ways to express 13 interior states.

Ten of the 13 images are shown.  Additional images available upon request.