These photographs were taken using a blue walled children’s viewing toy. The shape of the “Blue Looking Glass” informs each of the images by creating a border of varying hues around the central circular viewing space. Intimate, interior spaces were photographed through this man-made funnel to give a picture of how safe places could look through altered sight – a possibly tenuous defect for humans. (Though not necessarily for other creatures, who are equipped to see the world differently.) Some of the photographs mimic a Cubist approach to fracturing space, though the color palette of the Blue Looking Glass series is more rich, varied, and inviting.
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Underneath the Sheets series
The Underneath the Sheets series was inspired by the premise of a Westmont College Reynolds Gallery exhibition entitled Interior Spaces. The photographs explore a space that is typically overlooked: those small slow moments of light and color that filter through the sheets. Sheets were moved and lit, but no other visual devices were used to distort their documentation. A decision was made to make the images melt by keeping them out of focus. Without glasses or contacts, this is how I see those little spaces – blurs of light and color that are soft, warm and seductive. This unfocused treatment references the way this space is inhabited and viewed by humans regardless of their visual acuity: in sleep, dream, or drugged seduction. Only two shots include skin in them, however, some of the shapes emulate body parts, which adds another clue to the subject of this series.