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"V Quinze: Les Détails" Series

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"Mottled Patination" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Brass Finish, Aged" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel.18" x 12"
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"Mottled Red" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Brass Leaf" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Brass Dentil Exposed" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Red Patination" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Lit Erosion" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Restored Stone" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Textured Wear" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Restored Marble Rusting" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Shrinking Restoration" Single edition, digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Brass Jeweled Crack" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Restored Marble and Brass Hinge" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Brass Molding Protection" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 18" x 12"
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"Restored Vent, Aged" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 12" x 18"
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"Question of Age" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 30" x 40"
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"Patinated Vent" Single edition, unedited digital photograph mounted on aluminum panel. 10" x 12"

Artist Statement: "V Quinze: Les Détails" Series

During most of my life, I worked with fine antique furnishings. As an appraiser and restorer of antiques and decorative arts, I became intimate with the grains and living surfaces of wood.  In most objects, I become acutely aware of the damage from use, warping from time and restorations from hundreds of years of care.  It influences how I see the world.  Beauty is no longer perfection, it is the imperfection of age. 

I pursue the simplicity of line and am led to detailed abstractions.  I explore line; I investigate the world of historic decorative arts and architecture.  Decorative arts begin to open their stories to me and invite me to share them in a way not often seen or respected.  I am rewarded for my listening with detailed abstractions and the texture of line which endlessly intrigues me.

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