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Volumetric Prints

Private Discussion In Mauve, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) A friend recently showed me a kickstarter project that has some interesting similarities to how I was considering printing these images. Although they go about it by stacking together a series of clear plates with printing on them - whereas I was considering ...
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Dreaming

Fractured Jet Stream, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I've been reading some unusual sci fi books by Rudy Rucker in which he makes some interesting points. Rudy is a mathematician and his books are full of some of the weirdest stuff you can imagine but a great deal of it is ...
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Urgent Youth

Blue Horizon, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I had the opportunity to visit my old high school recently with a group of friends. Aside from how odd it felt to walk the halls again as if I had never left, I was struck by the consistent thread of urgent youth - ...
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Paraphrase

Rolling Wave Under Belly, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I believe my current fascination with movement stems from an interest in context. I remember years ago reveling in the notion of ambiguous context in images. By cropping an image down to some small element of the original you can find extraordinary but ...
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A Puzzle

Aurora Borealis, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) The city is a puzzle to me. I've always viewed it as a maze in which I must find the shortest or quickest path to traverse - perhaps this is the way cab drivers think too. But there is a certain alienation that occurs ...
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Shape And Experience

Satin Refraction, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) There is a dynamic balance in a city - one that's in constant flux. From one day or season to the next the geometry is changing - coupled with the constant movement of objects within and you have an ever changing panoply of material to ...
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Different Perspective

Indigo Squid Beneath Orange Waves, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I had to step outside my warm padded cocoon of a studio to clear my head and think for a bit. It's cold and rainy out there with the birds chirping and Queen street is packed with traffic. It's good to ...
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Path of Most Resistance

Blue Glint, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I was just sitting here feeling awful, thinking wouldn't it be easier if I just did X instead of Y. And as my thoughts devolved - which they tend to do - I realized nah, that wouldn't be so fun because it would be ...
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Flood Gates

Underwater Calm, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I believe I've already related anecdotes about people mistaking my images for paintings. I've wrestled with how to classify my work for years now and some time ago I put painterly photography in my email signature. The other day I had some interesting conversations about ...
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Oscillate Vacillate

Taut Vibrations, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I often wonder at the validity of these images. I think of it as similar to quantum physics - the closer you examine any argument the more you see it can be subdivided into smaller arguments. At what point do you stop subdividing and ...
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Enough

Inverted Orange Sky Smear, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) After some reflection over today's image, it feels like it has roots in skyline images I took years ago hanging out the window of a car bombing down a road at sunset in Kaui. There was a flat green foreground with a ...
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Dance

Propagating Mauve Waves, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Today I've been wracking my brain for what the city means to me. I'm looking for a simple, non-romantic, honest explanation that reflects my intent. The city is a complicated place - at any time there is always much activity and movement. There ...
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Random Images

Half Lidded Dream, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Years ago when I had just completed the Coloured City series, I had a gallery curator ask if I was making images at random. The same could be asked of all three of the city bodies of work and even more so of the ...
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Chaos & Order Explained

Linear Jellyfish, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I need to explain the statement - I seek order from chaos. I view the movements of all things as patterned on some scale. I am drawn to the larger more integrated patterns that appear, when the movement of many things intersect. I consider these ...
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Cabin Retreat

Koi Pond, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) For quite a while now I've wanted to build a quiet hidden cabin retreat off somewhere in the woods or by some water. When I was a kid around 8 or 9 my parents found a piece of land on an Indian reserve on ...
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A Process

Sand Spindrift Ridges, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) People are often curious how I make my images. Several years ago I was showing prints from my Metro Motions series when someone came up to me and asked how I made my paintings. To which I replied they aren't paintings, they're photographs. ...
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The City/Body

Orange Jupiter Squall, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Staring out my studio window now watching as vehicles and people struggle to move about in this winter snow storm I imagine the city as a body - somewhat geometric in design but organic in it's deference to the geography of the land. Referring ...
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