Reveries – Conceptual Montages

Gallery Description

I preferred monochrome images in the first phase of my work. I didn’t like color film in general until Fuji provided a color sense that was more to my liking.  Positive film was problematical and my preferred use of negative was hampered because it was less sharp.  Fuji came out with great negative film in 1980s so at that point I switched primarily to color.

The third phase started after I had become frustrated with the limitations of the wet darkroom.  I also wanted to explore images as if they were sketches, paint  and ideas to create anything I wanted.  That became  possible using the early Photoshop as if it was a brush for dreamy ideas.   I liked making montages having grown up around my father’s work that used that form a lot so I went in that direction now and then and still do.

This gallery’s images are those  I made for fun and probing my own imagination.  In a way I think they represent variation in reality meaningful for me.   Our brains don’t record fixed images in minute fractions of a second nor do they fixate on a scene the way a camera does. I like that a series of montage images  represent what  we experience in a scene.  Since the retinal macula can only focus on a postage stamp sized area at a time this concept is amplified for me.  I think these montages allow me to playfully engage with that concept.