Wildflowers

From 1980 to 2001, the overwhelming majority of my work comprised interpretations of landscapes - aimed at evoking in the viewer an invitation to explore the multiple rhythms (those deriving from subtle color changes, imposition of natural and manmade forms, and from the passage of time). Throughout that period, I recorded images on color transparencies. In 2002, I acquired an SLR digital camera, and with it the ability to bring my landscape sensibilities to a highly kinetic macro world by exploiting the enormous range in sensitivity afforded by CCDs and their associated electronics. These images, which evolved during the period 2002-2006, are at once recordings of the interplay of light, color and shape, and evocations of the delicacy and sensuality of desert flora: the translucent white of prickle poppies; the silky white of primroses and mariposa lilies; the buttery yellow-white of yucca blossoms; seductive purple-white daturas; the waxy deep yellow, orange and red cactus flowers.

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