Statement
Life is tumultuous and uncertain, yet it’s the persistence of everyday marvel that fascinates me. One way I explore uncertainty’s gifts of surprise is through my photography-based art project, Caustic Optimism.
Using a warped-glass object to intentionally disrupt my view of ordinary backdrops, I push myself to see the upended situation with fresh eyes. From the visual chaos of the highly refracted and reflected light patterns—what physicists call caustic optics—I look for and photograph the unexpected.
The results of this “painting with crazed light” process are rich, unique images: split-second captures of banal settings out of which emerge, as if imagined, wondrous figures, places or situations. I use minimal photo editing before having the works enlarged and printed as archival pigment prints on fine art paper. From that body I produce single images, diptychs, montages and other assemblies.
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