“Roy Lichtenstein meets Cindy Sherman on steroids, peyote and gun powder.”

With shades of verisimilitude, simulacra, hyper reality, magic realism and the hero motif, (though not fitting completely into any one of these genres) I draw on numerous sources to create artworks with my newspaper the Tribal Earthling as the axis of each image. My Tribal Earthling allows me a vehicle to explore science, technology, politics, metaphysics, religion, art and futurology among other topics. I include myself as an infrequent, recurring subject/character in order to further my efforts of blurring the line between reality and fiction. This project is akin to a novel in visual art form such that each image might be considered a page or chapter in the book or perhaps even articles to be pasted into a scrapbook.

Technique: Single image capture utilizing my Digital Construct concept to insert the news stories.

The female nude form contemporarily conceived then digitally manipulated to resemble the feel of imagery from the era of the sexual revolution.

Technique: Single image capture

This body of work explores relationships of the mythical, supernatural and catastrophic potentials of our shared human existence through the juxtaposition and association of totems and icons, artifacts and landforms.  While totems and charms have been replaced with networks and grids the experience of living is still regulated by the primitive impulses to food, clothing, shelter and an innate desire for some level of security/belonging.  We remain tribal, our struggles universal.

Technique: Digital Constructs

Flow explores the provocative albeit fugitive nature of sand formations in the landscape and the inexorable passage of time. I am aware that many visionaries, artists and photographers have found inspiration in the desert. I felt there were things left unsaid.

Technique: Single image capture

This is my movie poster series. Using the original motion pictures as my points of departure I move characters out of their comfort zones and down the road, beyond le fin. How has a hero been changed once the curtain falls on the final act of the picture? What new questions can be raised when we expand and inter-twine storylines beyond their initial boundaries and intensions?

Technique: Digital Constructs

Inspired by the romantic, sentimental and nostalgic emotions of the Pictorialism movement of the early 1900s this series uses digital grunge techniques to revive, reinterpret and reimagine Pictorialism a century after its inception. Unlike its predecessor however, Grunge Pictorialism finds its jumping off point not in painting and drawing but instead in the early photographers pictorial alchemy, thus making Grunge Pictorialism self-referrential only to photography and no other media of visual arts expression.

Technique: Digital Constructs

Exploiting the irony of how the idea of images etched into digital form are far more permanent than that of the original subject matter which is momentarily etched into stone but constantly in transition and decay due to the relentless effects of wind, rain, sun and surf.

Technique: Single image capture

To be beyond the pale is to be outside the bounds of acceptable behavior, outside of one’s comfort zone, beyond rules or convention. It is uncivilized and indecent. A reality where one can all too easily fall under the influence of phantasm, illusion, hallucination, addiction.

Technique: Digital Constructs

Various objects and artifacts are exposed by the forces of nature the juxtaposition of which invites the viewer to “excavate” the site visually in order to unlock the mystery that surrounds the collection of artifacts exposed.

Technique: Single image capture

This project is my exploration of the myth and legend of the all-but-vanished scarecrow, with no more ambition than to append/rewrite 3,000 years of Greek Myth. Precursor to the scarecrow, Priapus was a minor Greek Fertility god cursed by Hera, through no fault of his own, to be lonely and impotent. I contend otherwise. Through depictions of the many Daughters of Priapus fated, as was their father through no fault of their own, to serve out eternity as contraditions of warning and desire. Scarecrows, goddesses, performers, crucifixions.

Technique: Digital Constructs

The classic hourglass shape of the female form is a fugitive thing that is like the sand within the hourglass in that it is subject to the inexorable passage of time and as the sand flows and time passes the bloom will ultimately fade from the rose.

Technique: Single image capture

The female nude form contemporarily conceived then digitally manipulated to portray the light and feel of artworks of the Italian Renaissance era.

Technique: Single image capture

Since the beginning of recorded history the valley has served as metaphor for the exploration of the psyche.  The idea of descending into the “valley of shadows” echoes the metaphysical descent into ones subconscious mind and is permanently imprinted on the human collective unconscious.  We instinctively fear the leviathans that inhabit the darkest recesses of our minds, yet we are drawn to them by unseen forces just as we are drawn by the unseen force of gravity from the safe mountain peaks of reality into the depths of the valley.  Accentuating the camera's finest attribute of being able to capture an instant of time in space I watch for that window of magic skirting the edge of light and shadow that will allow me a moments glimpse into a larger reality.

  We are all explorers of realities both visible and invisible.  In this era of information superhighways and political correctness there are still realms of wonder available to the adventurer just beyond the city limits of everyday reality.

Technique: Single image capture

Exploring the potential to express visually the emotions contained within the experience of loss and regret.

Technique: Digital Constructs or single image capture

Darker versions of folk tales more closely reflecting their original oral tradition before they were diluted for mass consumption. Fairy Tales resurrected, reimagined and re-engineered.

Technique: Digital Constructs or single image capture

Translation:

Whet: “Stimulate”

Plait: “Please”

The female nude form contemporarily conceived then digitally manipulated to simulate traditional photographic effects native to the wet plate process.

Technique: Single image capture

Exploration of the female bodyscape.

Technique: Single image capture