Explorementation

Explorementation

It is easy to see the forest through the trees especially when no one told you it was impossible.  No one told a raindrop it could be a lake, no one told me I could be whatever I wanted to be when I grew up.  I was shown how everything is possible through hard work.  Each drop of sweat is like a silver raindrop.  Exploration and Implementation has created me, like rain.  It takes ten thousand raindrops to make one river, one waterfall, one lake.  I find myself watching reflections of the tree lines on the shores of lakes.  It takes ten thousand raindrops to make one flower, one tree, one person.

There is no such thing as a gift without a problem, the problems created in my art, created gifts.  It is a rarity when I can trace the path when it comes to the influences of work, I would like to take time to thank a few people who really made this happen.

Thank you:

Richard Kelly

I knew the shutter speed was off, I was upset with the results and was going to toss the negatives.  Richard Kelly (forever the optimist) thought the results were pretty cool, he said I could maybe flip the negatives and create a mirror image.

Michael Novara

During a meeting concerning other works, Michael Novara said why don’t you just silk screen print on the photos, I have been busy working on this ever since.

Christianna Kreiss

Who allowed me to really try out Michael’s suggestion by donating some of her rejected prints (prints I would have never rejected) to explore and experiment with.

Elizabeth Raymer Griffin

I got to learn from this artist the Cyanotype printing process (and many others) which directly 

influenced the photo prints and the tie in of all the ideas, great teacher.

Elysia

The best model I have ever worked with, during a studio lighting class with Richard Kelly at PFM.  What a great evening of explorementation.