There is a sculpture in Cambier Park, Naples Florida, made of dichroic glass, that I stop to photograph when I am in the area. As time has gone by, I've found the repeated exercise has helped to hone my vision. The shifting light and time of day is always creating new opportunities to explore with the camera. After photographing the sculpture, I adjust the contrast and balance, sometimes eliminating the sculptures working hardware that shows up.
Dichroic glass is glass which displays two different colors by undergoing a color change in certain lighting conditions. the modern dichroic glass was developed by NASA for use in dichroic filters.
As a painter who loves photography, taking photographs which started out as a way to create reference materials, has grown to be an end product in itself. The photographs in this collection are in a minimalist style with its stripped down aesthetic ideals but awash in a subtropical vibe. The images playfully flirt with Op art, minimalism and geometric abstraction but with an emphasis on transcendentalist levity, boundary-dissolving luminescence, and—in place of New York Minimalism's hard-edged industrial materials—an embrace of joyfulness that comes from living in a sub-tropic paradise.

I've always been attracted to layered images, be it in the paintings that I layer with encaustic, or photographs of encrusted glass; water in swimming pools; or the sun on the sea where I can see both the surface reflection and what lay below. I like when what is actually happening is not clear because difference spaces are bouncing back into your line of vision. From these, I draw the strong structural compositions that mark my work as my own.