Gilded

“I am deeply interested in investigating ways of seeing and perception. We all bring our own filters to the visual table. With this regard, I present objects in a way that challenges our interpretation of them. Using a camera - a tool whose primary purpose is to record reality faithfully and document without bias - I instead subvert the process to create fictional and imaginary landscapes and still lives. My work culls and distorts everyday subjects and plays with scale and orientation, repetition, and incongruence. I introduce painting and explore collage in my process to create a familiar landscape, but one not of this world”.

This body of work was inspired by the garden planted by a free-spirited, beautiful young French chef who farmed on our property for two wonderful farm-to-table years. In between rows of tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash and so many other delectable edibles, she planted swaths of dahlias, cosmos, and wildflowers too many to name. I started documenting these blooms in their various forms and created an archive of images. During Covid, when everything around us went dark, I reached for color and the Bloom series was born.