Energetics: the broad scientific study of energy, its transformation and its balance within a specific system.
My work emerges from expeditions into my imagined version of the space between what we perceive and what is ever present. During each image-making session, I manipulate the camera's exposure and optical settings, use spontaneous physical movement, and adjust the playback of colorful imagery on a monitor. These actions allow me to travel into and explore this unseen layer via my camera's viewfinder. The resulting art works include the large-scale photographs in my Experiments in Color Abstraction series and the photographic sculptures that contain stored energy from this Energetics series.
Embodied Energy is a series of these sculptures arranged in a reconfigurable grid. Each of the sculptures can be rotated in 4 directions and placed in any position in the grid. In a grid of 21 sculptures if you were to move them into a new arrangement every second it would take over 13 billion years to complete every permutation.
Optical Resonance Artifact series is demonstrated by storing elastic potential energy in the scoring and folds of the photograph and capturing and re-emitting photonic energy as light passes through the acrylic component and creates a color shadow. This series further explores how imagery derived from light is transformed into a sculptural form that embodies color and creates a visible vibration of energy.
