June 2014 Exhibition

“I can not think of any reasonable explanation why these pictures should exist. Someone put them in front of me. I pressed the shutter.”

“After Hours is a subconscious narrative created in a search for the heart of the night. The resulting story is nonlinear, with each image standing as a separate chapter which contributes to the overall emotional experience. The work is meant to create its own reality rather than represent the one it was taken from.”

 “The images in this body of work were captured and stored, and then filed in my memory over many years. They were just individual images that I was drawn to because of their roundness. The feeling of calmness, the sense of equilibrium, and the satisfaction of completion that roundness may represent were found in a variety of subjects, some of which made me laugh when I saw them. And here they are—contained in perfect squares.”

“Orphaned objects on the streets of New York often evoke stories.  These six objects were all discovered on one block of the parade route on a soggy Gay Pride Day in 2013.”

“The work is based on snapshot pictures of my mother’s apartment that I took after she went to live in a nursing home. This was just before I had to begin disposing of the contents of her life as revealed in the objects photographed. The exhibit consists of a digital slideshow with sound track created from an analog carousel projector.”

“I have always been fascinated by glimpses of things.  Just for a second or two, something is there and then it’s gone, leaving one’s imagination free to create a story. Riding on a train, a house or fields come into view, then disappear.  How long have they been there?  Who lives there?  And the train moves on.”

“As a child there was a time when I read the Wonderwoman comics, and I completely merged into them. In the Wonderwoman series, I photograph the comic heroine as an anti-heroine. I place her in human situations where you would never find a super-hero, with a slight sense of (self) irony and melancholy. While slightly mocking the American ideal of glory and perfection, the series expresses love for the ideas and values behind the comic character Wonderwoman: honesty, justice, love and strength.”