Photomontage
Collage is a medium I like to go to when I play.
Stained glass commissions are not always readily available and when my worktable is free, collage is a preferred medium for me.
I have always been interested in photography, and, with the technology at our disposal in this day and age, one really doesn’t need to be a professional photographer to be able to take decent photographs.
My camera, computer and printer, plus my trusted hot glue gun were the tools for creating this series—which, by the way, is still ongoing.
The twist with my photomontage is that after deconstructing my images, I reassemble them in a three dimensional way. The artwork itself juts out of the frame towards the viewer.
The most recent works in the series are the Beirut Reflected/Beirut Refracted pieces.
The huge blast at the Beirut port triggered me to look through the vast photo library that I had taken over the years. Some of which were taken in the city in 2011, when it still was a glittering place that thought it had shaken itself back to the beautiful life. Oh, the dreams we have!
Anyway, the tragedy of that blast sent me back to the photos of the beautiful city and how the very elements that made it beautiful could turn, in an instant, into such death and destruction.
This series was started during my ten years in Los Angeles, evolving to produce several categories of work within itself (abstract, portraits, flowers, arabesque).