Early Work

I completed my first work in New York near the end of 1989. Double Cry began as a photographic image on paper: a twinned head in profile, over which I laid a sheet of translucent paper. I sought out the process of sandblasting in the interest of making the work more present in space, playing with the idea of reproduction with reproductive techniques. In glass, the work could cast a shadow of itself, making and remaking itself in the changing light, acting as its own maker.

This piece led to additional graphic objects, including House of Children and others. Now, working in aluminum and printing processes, I reanimate figures that I photographed, adding subtle changes and new orientations to their original gesture. I integrate the front, printed surface with the usually unseen back, figuration, abstraction, recto/verso, so that graphic and flat become spacial, floating, and falling.

Today I see a clear line between this early work, through other printed objects throughout my working life, to my present work. In retrospect ideas and images come together. Connections become clear.