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The abstract series of photographs is my latest foray into digitally painting with color and movement. This work uses photography much as an abstract painter would use a paintbrush. Color, shape, and movement are generated photographically and blended digitally. Where a painter might use a variety of brushes and paints to layer the canvas with texture and color, I intentionally move and jerk the camera, capturing frames filled with movement and light. That photographed light, in motion, becomes the raw material for the finished work.

In the past several years, I’ve just begun to explore this way of thinking in still photography after many years of shooting figurative art. I’ve become intrigued with blending my two loves: the movement of video and the sense of captured time in still photography. In a sense, this body of work (both the photographic and video explorations) is a throwback to some of the spontaneous creation ideas of the American Abstract Expressionist painters of the mid-20th century with a 21st century digital spin.