Part of my interest in figurative work had been making human bodies have a timeless mythological feel of fluidity and transparency, yet display a strong sculptural identity in the photographs.  The clouds were a departure from directing models and photographing scenes to observing and trapping on film pure forms of light that are continually in a stage of metamorphosis.  The process of spending time meditating and playing with the forms (looking straight up in the sky for hours) was genuinely peaceful and beautiful experience.  When I finally started making the prints, I had seen quite a few  El Greco paintings, and of course, “the clouds of Michaelangelo” was never far from my consciousness; so the chemistry did its work in transforming the silver paper.

In 2004, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania along with curator Jacqueline Van Rhyne at the Print Center in Philadelphia, selected these unique images as part of the city wide initiative exploring ideas of nothing and nothingness and were exhibited under the title the “Big Nothing”.  All prints are 20x24 chemically altered silver prints and are available.