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"The Moment" Series

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"Holding Light" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Morning Newspaper" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Scratching the Itch" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 10" x 20"
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"Reading" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Swish" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Contemplating" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Examined Beauty" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 20" x 16"
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"Tragic Beauty" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 16" x 20"
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"Under" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Light" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 15" x 20"

Artist Statement: "The Moment Series"

With this series, I explore the line of light.  Minute details reveal themselves in anomalies of daily life: sculpting a human face, a swan's neck or a bench slat in sunset light after rain.  The abstraction of how light composes an image, guides me.  The image usually brings me intimately close- closer than I often feel comfortable.  Yet, when I am there, I surrender to the exquisite simplicity of the line which has drawn me to it.  I explore the abstraction in that place, in that moment.  This series is the result of that moment.

I was greatly influenced by Charles Daugherty, artist, sculptor and professor, during my training with him at the Claremont Colleges.  This led me to not merely see a subject, but to follow the line which came off of it and pursue its abstraction into my photographs.  As a result, I am often influenced by simple groupings of line.  My exploration guides me to settings--urban and natural-- where lines with stories reveal themselves to me. 

I make digital photographs with natural lighting and avoid any editing.  I am most satisfied when a subject has so completely communicated with me in the moment that no editing is required.  The resulting capture is mounted on aluminum panel, allowing a contemporary connection with the composition without obstruction of frame or glass.  
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