These are digital collages assembled from my own photographs. Some of the photographs are from a recent trip to South Africa, others are bits and pieces of my paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Still others are from the pics that are taken for utilitarian purposes only: to remember a product that needs to be purchased or a receipt that needs to be recorded. Sometimes I find the latter images the most compelling, exciting, and challenging to use, because they aren’t taken with any overt aesthetic intention, and yet, with some recontextualization, they can add to the aesthetic and compositional complexity of a new image. I take a lot of pictures because I love to make beautiful compositions, and then those get broken apart into pieces and reconfigured in collages like these.   

It’s fun to make these, to play with shape, color, and space, scale and movement, continuity and dissonance, and watch new worlds emerge, wondering what they signify and what they have to do with me and my relationship to the world. Simply remaking that world in my own fashion, with my own aesthetic proclivities, is significant enough, I don’t need them to say anything in particular. The simple act of reshaping our world into new things is a basic human need that never tires in me.