The Figures are made from photo-collages rendered seamless by setting the camera's focusing ring at infinity and then shooting close up to create extremely blurred images. This sleight of hand allows me to conjure a mysterious tromp l'oeil world that hovers between the real and the fantastic. It is a world just beyond our grasp, where place may be suggested, but is never defined, and where the identity of the amorphous figures remains in question.  It is a world that might exist in memory, in dreams, or, perhaps, in a parallel universe yet unvisited. 

The nature of visual perception intrigues me: how the eye continually tries to resolve these images, but is unable to do so, and how that is unsettling.  And I am drawn to the idea that we can believe something is real, while at the same time knowing it is illusory; that the experience of visual confusion, when the psyche is momentarily derailed, is what frees us to respond emotionally. 

At the same time, the subject of these collages is color.  Extreme de-focusing enables me to blend and distill hues, creating rhapsodies of color that are meditative pieces--glimpses into a space of pure color, beyond our focus, beyond our ken.