boys my parents always made sure there was a
camera present and I guess that's why I've always
had a camera in my hand. I attended the University
of TN on a music scholarship for two years before
moving to New York to attend the Manhattan School of
Music as a Percussion major. For the next twenty years I lived my
dream of playing Broadway shows. After that I ran my own video
production business for about eleven years. So, my whole life has
been immersed in art of some form... and I took a lot of photographs.
About five years ago I acquired a copy of Photoshop and my visual
life was changed. I have always been a decent photographer, but I
didn't seem to be able to make the leap into fine art, and I certainly
wasn't computer literate. After working with Photoshop for about 3
months I began to see some real results and realized that this was
what I had been looking for all my visual life!
I am an observer of nature and all things small. I shoot small things
much better than I shoot large things. I think I want to see how they
are constructed. Consequently I sometimes get some very strange
images. I didn't do much with those images because, even if I saw
some potential in the image, I didn't have the money or the time to
make it happen. When those problems digitally disappeared I was
free to play and what is art but wonderful creative play. I wonder if
that's why we play music?
I also really enjoy finding reality in the abstract as well as finding the
abstract in the real. If you look at something long and hard enough it
can dissociate from its context, becoming something quite
unexpected - maybe beautiful. If my images are successful, the
viewer is not aware of the computer nor the source. But the truth is
that I fly by the seat of my pants, letting each image tell me what it
wants to be. And that can be hard. Some images speak right away
like AVALON.
When I saw a wonderful pattern that mould and mildew had made on
a wall I knew exactly what it wanted to be, I just had to acquire
enough skill to make it happen. Other images take more
experimentation and coaxing.
They say "Works of art are not completed, they are abandoned". So
here are some images that I have abandoned. I hope you enjoy them.
