ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This unusually formed tree near the 12th Century Fountains Abbey may be hundreds of years old - or so it seemed. It projects a ancient, wise, and quiet dignity as an old man posing fo a formal portrait.

AUTHOR
My happy place is in creating abstract photographic images from mundane things and making digital photo collages. I want to divide the canvas, creating a ‘splitscape’ that highlights a shift from one state of being or condition to another – for better or worse. The vague interstitial space between the two states resides in the divide. Sometimes I’m thinking of the transitions between urban and wilderness or blighted and pristine environments – because my home – Los Angeles - is filled with these strange transitions. But I seek them out in other locales, too.
I also have created small sets of related images that represent fleeting ‘micro-obsessions” that preoccupy me over a short period of time. Examples of these include a single palm in an urban setting and ‘little house/big cactus’, a series where large cactus plants seem to be photo-bombing the small houses to which they belong – or is it the other way around? What‘ll be next?

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