Artist Photographer
I heard it said that flowers are responsible for color in the world. Not true, really, but certainly a great contributor. Color inspires my work, a theme that runs through most of what I photograph. Working up close with tulips and irises takes me into another world of structure, texture, beauty, line, form, shape, light. There’s a great reason flowers exist as a subject matter that has engaged artists throughout time.
But it is not just about the flower, for me. Sometimes, it’s about juxtaposition. Sometimes, I discover in an image, long after the picture was taken, that there was an instinct for a moment felt yet revealed only much later. And I’ve come to find and seek the flower’s beauty in all stages, from bud, through glory, and into decay.
Having “Fragile Moments” acquired by and installed in the Center for Healing Arts at the Truman Medical Center (now University Medical Center) following its exhibition at the Epsten Gallery where art therapy programs were conducted in the midst of the exhibition, fulfilled a dream to realize a long and deeply held notion about the healing power of art.
