I've been living/working in the E. Village of N.Y.C. for some 28+ yrs., am currently producing a series of photo-works (about 120 works), 'Sinergi3s of Confluence' (SinCon), where the built environment is vehicle to artistic/sociologic passions, each of which are germane to the watershed events of 9/11. Having successfully survived my adolescence in Baltimore, MD, I received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, (70). Graphic design/photography are media primary to my efforts, though engaging acts of drawing from time to time. Came to N.Y.C. (77) to live, work & further full time photographic studies at the International Center of Photography (79). Later I began a two and a half yr. sojourn at the Art Students League, concentrations on anatomy and life drawing. Realizing the digital gap had to be bridged, digitization was realized at the School of Visual Arts, N.Y.C. (03). Photo-works taken into the permanent collections at the New York Public Library - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2 works) and the Museum of The History of Photography - Krakow, Poland (2 works).
My works are but corridor to stories having been told, many yet to be told and perhaps more importantly a conduit to the story that lie within each of us. I believe all the arts, and varied forms, are but language through which a story is told, regardless how personal. Since the beginnings of community life, a place of honor was held as residence to the storyteller. This trait exist within each and often are passageway to the windows of imagination. Once engaged, imagination become the place where I wish to consider the world, while viewing it through these wondrous panes of prophecy. With each visitation, this inner-room increase in size…a larger domain I’ve come to call home. Artifacts of these efforts become remains of an existence…one I hope will amplify the world beyond a passing of the reins.
S I N E R G I 3 S of C O N F L U E N C E
This confluence of sky and urban landscape, the works of a totality larger than human-kind and structural works of humanity, have garnered a re-evaluation beyond the ubiquitous gaze of the urban tourist. Borne of the in-auspicious events of 9/11, this series of some 200 works, result in realizations of new meanings mediating conversation between a visual self and environment. The technical premise of the ‘SinCon’ series is founded upon the rich vocabulary of the digital experience, using the original lens image to inform and extend a personal response and visual result. Narrative aspects of this process range widely to embrace a multitude of conceptual/social matters, relying upon a combination of what I may bring to the situation, and perhaps more importantly, a pro-active listening to what the world is bringing to me. These elementary acts of replication, selective cropping and a re-marrying of the lens image to itself (another form of confluence) often result in a synergy of information, ie. new-found relationships supporting the storied and formal concerns of the composition.
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