Portraits || Landscapes || Figures + Nudes || Family Fotos|| Survey of Work|| Work Before 1984 || Digital Work
Begun as a drawing exercise in 1986, my source material for this ongoing series is a collection of family snapshots. Some are my own, some given to me, some found in my mother's household drawers or my father's photo album. The serendipity of these moments captured contrast to the stillness required from a posed subject. These are random moments captured and preserved, familiar moments or moments common to most people. Using the photo as a pictorial source my goal is impression and interpretation, not representation. Sometimes identity issues surface with earlier stages of my life, family life, and portraits of deceased family members, as does recognition of similarities and differences within the generations and extended family members. Using the snapshots as raw material opens the subjects to other possibilities, pairing family members who never would have met and intergenerational comparisons such as daughters and great grandmothers, sons and grandfathers.