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Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, muted, streaks, waves, layers, pattern

The City In Motion

Green Wave Washing Over Red, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) When I first moved to Toronto and began studying the city as my subject I was focused on geometry as the defining element - I suppose this was only natural considering I had been concentrating on the shape of the rural ...

Airfish

I have this vision of the city as a dream space in slow motion, with the ambient sound dialed way down and a walking pace rhythmic beat, reverberating music, pulsing, echoing large in my head, as I slowly traverse it - watching as it unfolds around me. This comes from my early days as willy ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, green, red, muted, streaks, layers, pattern

Intuition And Our Common Past

Shrouded Smear, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I've been operating intuitively since I began making images. I had no idea what I should be doing or why but gradually I evolved my own interests, reasons and techniques. Over the past several years I've spent a great deal of time self analyzing in ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, turquoise, blue, tan, muted, streaks, layers, offset, pattern

Factored Vignette

Stormy Brown Sweeping Over Turquoise, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) This past Sunday we were at the AGO and I had an opportunity to take a relaxed look at the exhibitions - haven't done that in years. After working my way through the photography exhibitions I found myself in the contemporary ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, turquoise, yellow, grooves, streaks, lines, pattern

Not Infinite

Grooves Under Turquoise Green Encroaching Yellow, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) As I was riding home from my studio just now, I was struck by how rapidly the days are shortening toward the winter solstice and how cold the days are becoming. It gave me a strong sense of the finite size ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, turquoise, blue, red, muted, swooshes,, pattern

Spontaneous Living

Billowing Red Orange Traversing Blue Green, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) For a long time I've noticed a malaise among my friends and associates. I had attributed it to an increased burden of responsibility that comes with acquisition, children and age. But what if it's something more fundamental? When we're young(er) our ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, orange fuchsia, turquoise, muted, streaks, pulsing, pastels, pattern

Ride The Wave

Orange Pulsing Over Green, 2013 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I've not been too happy with the way my life has been going lately. I'm on a terrible treadmill of responsibility and timelines - jam packed with little or no down time. It's all important - to me, so not a question ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, orange, muted, streaks, pattern

Follow Your Heart

Sun Under Blue Water, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I've been reading the Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson. It's very interesting - well, at least to me. I grew up with and was fascinated by computers from an early age right through to my university degree - yes, I have ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, green, fuchsia, muted, streaks, pattern

Fear Of The Unknown

Light Spear Over Madras, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) For so long now I've been afraid to promote my images to galleries. If I psychoanalyze myself I'm sure I could dig up mountains of excellent, rational, reasons why this is the case - and just because I'm able to name my ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, tan, yellow, muted

Naming The Thing

Vertebra And Lung On Blue, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) When something is mysterious or unknown to us its potential for bad or good is essentially limitless in our imagination. Because the thing is unknown it's just possible that whatever we care to imagine could be true about it. Originally I ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, tan, yellow, blue, muted

Highs and Lows

Turquoise Yellow Red Billowing Veil, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) When we're very young every single day is an entire universe of experience. We cry when it's time to sleep - perhaps because we don't want it to end. In time we forget the joy of seeing the world anew each ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, pink, yellow, muted, swirls, triangles, shapes

Weight of Life

Green Red Swoops Over Criss-Cross, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Every so often I find myself remembering friends and family I've lost along the way with a lonely and heavy heart. I imagine this is what my grandmother is feeling when she speaks longingly of lost friends and family - what ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, pink, green, orange, vibrant, swoops, streaks, drapes, pattern

Resin Trouble

Draped Yellow Green Over Pink, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Been working on the book today - sounds ominous calling it "the book" but there you go. It's actually a touch more difficult than I thought it would be but mostly the hard part is editing which images to include and then ...
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A Book

Deep Blue Refracted Orange, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Began working on a book of images today to use as a leave behind when I meet with galleries. But I'm kind of excited by the possibility of offering it as an ebook for free on my site and also as a hardcover ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, burgundy, yellow ,vibrant, swoosh, pattern

Life Arc

Yellow Swoosh Above Crumpled Red, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) The more I contemplate my existence in the context of increased longevity the more it seems my life arc has a fairly small set of possible themes and stages. Oh sure in life arcs there are likely infinite variations and nuances just ...

Entropy

This is weird but I've always thought of entropy as the ultimate force in the verse - something to seriously contend with. And my answer to this ultimate of irreducible forces was to counter with creation. Cheesy as this sounds, I think this is the essential reason I make things - at least on a ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, cyan, muted, brushed, streaks, patterns

Schism

Green Streaks and Cyan, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) It was a struggle to make this today for a lot of reasons. But the more I make things the more I feel I'm onto something - both internally and externally. Internally, because of my health pursuits - a mild way of ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, muted, streaks

Past Present Future

Blue Ghost Form Red Streak, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Last night I forced myself to plow through the remaining three boxes of soaked and moldering correspondence, notes and journals left over from my studio flood. I found lots of things in there. It was like speed reading - superficially examining ...
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