Artist's Statement

I am interested in ideas from chaos and complexity theories that look at forms in nature as part of a dynamic process oscillating between organization and entropy, coherence and disintegration.

In my Cloud Anatomy series, photographs of clouds have been painstakingly edited in Photoshop to reveal the complex rhythms of flowing currents of air in the sky.  What at first glance seems random, on further examination exhibits patterns of repeating curves, ridges, and wave-like regions. The editing process brings out the spatial dimensions of the form by removing most of the color, increasing the tonal range and isolating the outer contours of the cloud mass.  The resulting images reveal the clouds to be layered forms with intricate fibrous textures.  The images also emphasize the drama of clouds as fluid entities in the midst of transformation, and how the forces at work in their formation and dissolution clearly relate to earthly phenomena such as flowing water.

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