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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Homogenous

Diaphanous Veils, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Watching a Kevin Hart comedy show last night I was struck by how homogenous we've become as a society. Despite the different languages and cultural history of his audiences in each country there was a great deal of similarity between them. It's exciting to ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, blue, muted, streaks, layers, pattern

The Shape

Cold Ground Warm Horizon, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) In a recent conversation I made an off hand comment about the shape of the city, then immediately realized how important the shape of the city really is to me. (Funny how the really important stuff comes out of your sub-conscious when ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, green, yellow, orange, muted, streaks, pastels, pattern

Uplift

Pastel Glissando, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) You know, I think I'm ready to get out and shoot some new material - finally. Looking at the Light Signatures source material today, house keeping files stored in the wrong place and discovering missing material on my camera, I realized - yep, it's time. ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, turquoise, orange, muted, streaks, layers, pattern

Pattern Recognition

Orange Vacillations, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) When working on finishing an image - actually even before that - when scanning through the palette of raw material assembled together for a project - I engage in pattern recognition - looking for something. It's best as much as possible if I don't ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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