ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Chelsea, where I live, on Manhattan’s west side is becoming one of the most gentrified neighborhood in New York City. Still, close to the gleaming new highrise apartment and office buildings, there are older structures with cracked plaster, splintered wood, peeling paint, rust, rude graffiti, and ripped posters. It is here I find the material to create highly abstracted images. I want to go beyond mere reproduction, to produce singular images seemingly detached from the underlying sources – images that in their mystery evoke worlds far removed from the cold, deliberate modernist architecture. Hopefully, this give viewers reasons to pause and reflect and to bring their own experiences, imagination, and emotions into reading the images.

AUTHOR
I first picked up a camera to document protests at a national political convention. After college, I became a photographer and graphic artist for an African-American newspaper in California. Then, a passion for civil liberties, human rights, and the environment led to a consulting career.
Now, living in New York City and Florida, I have returned to photography with new passion. In Florida, I am drawn to exotic seabirds and flowers and marshy landscapes – committed to finding fresh, innovative images. In New York, I focus on patterns in the built environment and abstraction in the decay.

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