Quiet Solitude In Monochrome
Abstract Views Offer Meaning And Understanding
Photographs are said to tell stories. Stripped to shadow and light, an alternate version of these stories is created. Monochrome adds another dimension through subtraction.
Images can be altered through both addition, and subtraction. Removing information will illicit an alternate response. This response moves from the intellectual to the emotional.
As a photographer, I make images of a wide variety of subject matter. It is the work that creates an emotional response, that stays with me.
A pretty picture is just that, a pretty picture. Our world is full of them.
Pictures stripped to their essence, conjure emotions, feelings, and questions. They serve as metaphor. They ask me to think deeper in my pursuit of understanding the world, and my world.
This simple view of broken stone asks me to dig deeper. Do I have broken corners in my life? Is there a reason I…
