Color Studies

These images begin in darkness. With light, color, and reflective surfaces as my only materials, I construct spaces that have no real-world referent — vivid, geometric worlds that exist only in the making of them and in the photograph that results.

The influence here is painterly. Artists like Al Held built massive canvases where geometric form and color generate space rather than depict it — where depth and dimensionality are invented rather than observed. I'm drawn to that same possibility: a space that couldn't exist anywhere but in the work itself.

What I didn't anticipate was what the reflective surfaces would reveal. Stacked planes of acrylic floating above their own reflections, creating depths and passages that suggested something beyond the frame — portals into spaces I hadn't planned but immediately recognized. The work taught me that much of it is discovery rather than execution.

These are still lifes in the most literal sense — arrangements of light and form — but the spaces they create feel closer to dreams than to anything that exists in the world. I inhabit them as I make them, and I invite you to inhabit them as you look.