Abstracts

Transformations

Patterns

Reflections

There are three kinds of photographic images that I consider abstract. They are images that have been transformed by the photographer, the camera, or the physical qualities of light to the point that they have acquired a different and unique identity.

I call the most general of these images Transformations, composition that use different elements of the image in places and ways that trade their context for their relation to the others in the composition.

I also like to use the camera to frame unusual repeating elements, wherever I find them, as Patterns, repetitions that contain their own internal logic.

And I am also drawn to Reflections. Images that include or are contained in reflections lose their context and assume a new one that becomes a new image itself. Reflection is not so much the distortion of reality as it is a transformation of the subject, highlighting its content in a new and arresting way.