ENTRY DESCRIPTION
An image made at Salvation Mountain, a visionary folk art complex near Slab City, one of the many deserted outposts in the Southern California desert near the Salton Sea. So many textures and shades that it appears at first to be some type of abstraction, but it is a way into one of the many portals to be explored in this strange and iconic monument.

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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