The female torso became a major theme in the 1990's and continues to the present. I believe it to be an inward departure from the external search for content in the landscape. It has allowed me as an artist to have a subject of great tradition to explore the possibilities of my craft with greater dimensionality in order to augment my visual vocabulary.

At present, I work with the torso as an armature to be used in the manipulation and alteration of photography's chemistry and physics to acheive new possibilities of texture and color, intrinsic to the genuine materials and nature of photography. Inks and dyes are not of much interest to me except for duplicating or illustrating actuality. Likewise, I stand in awe of the technology and science that can illustrate our existence in hyper details from digital cameras, phones, and satelites; but, as an artist, I am tied to the neurological engagement with serendipity in the darkroom and the mysterious alchemical works on paper resulting from film, chemistry and precious metals being provoked and activated. The prints are in essence documents of that experience.

The photographs are all unique gelatin silver prints in sizes 20x24" and 16x20" made to archival standards. The originals or a high quality giclee editioned print is available for purchase.