REMNANTS | a small remaining quantity of something

I would select a portion of a vintage postcard that would make an interesting image. The enlarged lithography dot pattern added an abstract edge to the images and allowed me to present a unique vision.

I have always collected found images. I have always looked at these objects as viewfinders into the past, some mine and some others. During Covid and the inability to travel I found myself going through a box of vintage color postcards looking at the images as if through a viewfinder. Within those frames I would begin to select a portion that would make an interesting image or print, sort of an " image within an image ". The enlarged lithography dot pattern added an abstract edge to the images and allowed me to present a unique vision. Of course there are numerous historic connections here for me, the Taos Church is a photographic icon, capture by the likes of Paul Stand and Ansel Adams. One of my photographic heros is Alfred Stieglitz, my cloud images connect to his Equivialent Series. There is also a graphic design or “painterly” quality to some of these images, the dot pattern to Roy Lichtenstein and to Andy Wharol as well. Many of these choices were at the moment intuitive, with others connecting only during the process when other connections revealed themselves. This body of work is at times more personal than some of my previous work and it has become important for me to show, to share this within agallery space. I have been practicing fine art photography since the mid1970s. I have both watched it grow and I have developed my vision and my skills during this same period of time, this body of work presents the culmination of those efforts and presents a sense of my personal vision, one I want to share.

I would say to any artist: “Don’t be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider the urge, if in a new direction all the better.” - Edward Weston