work

  • Nicotiana Rustica
    2013

     Artist's Book 

  • Altar Piece
    2013

    Miexed media installation

  • tryptych
    2012

    Tryptych 

  • Drawings
    2011

    Nothing monumental, but still a thrill to gradually come to terms with a new medium.  Drawing sort of chess game between what we see and what we believe, what things are and what they seem to be.

  • Vegetative Estates
    2011

    When you go by the backlanes you realise the plants may be up to something.

     

    Two of these prints were selected For the Dream Logic show at the Darkroom Gallery, February 2011

     

     

    Prints are 5x7" (framed size 11x14)

  • Quiche: !Si a La Vida!
    2010

    I spent two months with human rights and environmental activists in the Western Highlands of Guatemala in the spring of 2010. It's a beautiful place full of ugly secrets-- life there is abundunt, but precarious.

  • Chinatown suite 1
    2010

    I've lived in Strathcona/Chinatown on and off for a number of years. For me, one of the defining characteristics of the neighborhood is the way in which the sounds that drift onto the streets reveal what goes on behind closed doors--  the gongs and drums of a dragon dance practice or the clatter of majong tiles 


     

    (Other soundscapes in this series are below.)

  • Flora
    2009

    This started as an informal commision from a friend to create some work that could be used as part of a fundraiser for, among other things, a community garden project in Guatemala.  I used the same multiexposure technique as in my earlier Primary Succession series, but here rather than manipulating form I was primarly interested in the posibility of manipulating the quality of light, my making multiple exposures of the same subject at different times and from different angles. Here as...

  • Primary Succession
    2009

    These photographs are inspired by biomimicry, in this case  the way humanmade structures built in broken or marginal places resemble the plant life in those same places -- twisting angry thorns.  I used multiple exposures to suggest impression of spreading and branching growth.

     

    The finished prints are 12' square.

  • Railyard suite part 1
    2008

    I returned to Vancouver after living and working in the wilderness of the North Cascade mountains and I found myself immediately drawn to the waterfront and rail yards. I felt a sense of the sublime in these alien industrial landscapes that echoed the sublime terror I felt in natural wilderness.

     

    Printed works in this series are 11x14" on Fuji Supergloss (framed size 16x20)