Photomanipulation nominee

Model Katrin Dohse and I visited the dirt floored space under an overpass and using smoke sticks engaged in what I call Radical Play. Almost a year later I entered post production with these images and continued with the Radical Play approach. These six images are from a series of 37.
I have found Radical Play to be one of the best ways to achieve alchemy in art. The secret is to engage/straddle two polar opposites at once. My primary focus is intent/openness. I first intend to create good art and have fun in the process, and then am open to how the good art will materialize. When these polarities are engaged synchronicity and serendipity show up and wonderful things begin to happen. Play of any sort allows an easy engagement of opposite poles. Play simply intends fun and has no interest in how it comes about. The best art comes to me as a surprise; it is as if I am discoverer rather than creator. Planning is always minimal for me. It is best to think of me as a primitive hunter-gatherer as opposed to a modern urban agrarian.

In 1978 I purchased a camera. In the early 80s my work was published, exhibited and purchased for the collection of the Standard Oil Company. My first solo show debuted in 1985.
I received a BA in Film from Columbia College in 1980.
My videos were exhibited at major festivals from 2003 to 2007. One video was nominated for the Golden Gate Award at the 47th San Francisco Int’l Film Festival.
2019: Gold Winner, 2018 Moscow International Foto Awards, Silver Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards for series "Fabric on the Dock", Seven nominations at the 5th Annual Fine Art Photography Awards, Finalist in Circle Foundation for the Arts’ Artist of the Year Competition, Exhibited at Transformations - 2019, Pennsylvania Center for Photography and In Motion exhibit at Photography Center of Cape Cod, and published in two hardcover art books: Tusis, Manipulated Images, a Dek Unu book, and the 7th International Photography Annual Publication at Manifest Gallery.
2017-2018: Exhibited twice in Rome, Italy, once in Belgrade, Serbia, and had ten works from the series Obscure Reveal exhibited at a Florida museum.