I am an artist working in the medium of photography. My fascination with seeing and observing things is based on the uncertainty of being alive. Because I wanted proof of existence itself, I was drawn to photography. I felt photography could supply that proof. After an experimental period, I began to create my own environments of personal fantasy to photograph. My images represent my search to find the unknown of myself.
My work deals with esoteric themes, such as dreams, subconscious and archetypal symbols, automatic writing (André Breton’s surrealist texts: “the magnetic fields” 1922), Shamanism, the invisible and surrealist metaphysics.
To me, making art is a mystical discipline to achieve a “visionary state”, and primal energy. I am also concerned with the discovery of other realities behind the facade or masks of material objects as well as the metamorphosis or the double identity of objects.
Finally, I form my work within an art historical context, always pushing within this context toward an avant-garde. My images are not manipulated in a computer, but with my own hands.
My work is created with 21/4 x 21/4 black and white negatives using a hasselblad camera. The only light source is igniting gunpowder. I make my prints by spreading liquid photo emulsion onto handmade watercolor paper. I use gunpowder light and the photo emulsion as an alchemical doorway to image transformation.
I hold a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of North Texas, 1980.
