PHOTO GALLERY - INTERTIDAL
INTERTIDAL
My first encounters in the dark room took place in 1980 when I worked as a technical assistant in the lab for a metallurgist. It was macro-photography that we were doing and I had never seen stress fractures under a microscope. They sometimes looked like the surface of Mars, or perhaps the dark side of the Moon, but this experience provided me with the welcome opportunity to use the dark room equipment and the privilege to process and print my own work off-hours. I had lots of fun experimenting with double-exposures and islandscapes. I particularly liked the juxtraposition of stone and flesh.
Again, I find myself working in the context of stone and flesh with the sea now a common language between the two. The body is also a sea and the stone is a vessel for shape-changing and time. The movement of the body is mirrored by the movement of tides. My subject is rising from stone and is transformed by intertidal life. Somewhere in the shadows I expect to see fins.