Photomanipulation nominee

This is my third series based in Dubuque, Iowa. I spent most of my first eight years there. Beginning in 1983 my visits to Dubuque were to create photography series. I have three: Dubuque Revisited, Fractical Dubuque and now Nonlinear Dubuque. The newest series is comprised of 60 images.
This artwork consists of three overlaid images, with two of them upside down. The primary image is of a room that was my kindergarten class in 1961. At that time the campus consisted of three buildings: the nunnery of the Sisters of the Visitation, an all girls Catholic elementary school and a boiler room heating all buildings with a co-ed kindergarten class located above it. The campus now belongs to Loras College. At the time of my photograph the room seemed to be used for storage. One of the upside down overlaid images is from a small brick parking area adjacent this building. It remains unchanged from 1961. The other upside down image is from an interior of an abandoned retail space near the Mississippi River.
I created three images from these layers with a focus on the polarity obscure/reveal. This one reminds of the painter Georges Braque.

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.