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By trapping light within layers of paint and reflecting it back, traditional glazing can create a wonderful intensity of light and color. The images often appear as if they are emitting light. The Mandala series began as an experiment in “digital glazing.” Painted textures, drawings, photographic images and scanograms are layered in a similar fashion to that used with traditional glazing. Each image is built over time by adding layers to increase its richness and definition. Unlike collaging where something is either there or not, glazing allows several images to exist within the same space, an overlapping of worlds. Not one thing or the other but a sum of its parts, a new reality is created occupying a space somewhere between sampled bits of what we know.
Since the process allows images to be combined in a variety of ways not limited by the physical reality of the materials, a richness of color and tone is created which fools the eye into believing in a depth and light beyond the images physical layer of ink on paper. Not simply an illusion of three dimensional space, these images seek to portray several spaces at once, melting them together into a unique whole. The first images in the series were built upon the 6-sided structure of a snowflake, revealing a multi-dimensional landscape within their crystalline structure. As the series progressed the geometry expanded to include images with reflective patterns including 5-sided, 7-sided, 8-sided and more as their subject matter dictated. Faery Star, for instance reflects the structure of a 7 sided star. The Mandala images explore a variety of subject matter. Like the Dreamspace pictures, they depict liminal space. Straddle boundaries and ideas, their subjects are dark and light, whimsical and serious, abstract and realistic. These pictures might present a deep space or a simple flower. There are intentional and accidental imagery contained within them. What you see depends on how you look. But isn’t that really always true in life too?
By trapping light within layers of paint and reflecting it back, traditional glazing can create a wonderful intensity of light and color. The images often appear as if they are emitting light. The Mandala series began as an experiment in “digital glazing.” Painted textures, drawings, photographic images and scanograms are layered in a similar fashion to that used with traditional glazing. Each image is built over time by adding layers to increase its richness and definition. Unlike collaging where something is either there or not, glazing allows several images to exist within the same space, an overlapping of worlds. Not one thing or the other but a sum of its parts, a new reality is created occupying a space somewhere between sampled bits of what we know.
Since the process allows images to be combined in a variety of ways not limited by the physical reality of the materials, a richness of color and tone is created which fools the eye into believing in a depth and light beyond the images physical layer of ink on paper. Not simply an illusion of three dimensional space, these images seek to portray several spaces at once, melting them together into a unique whole. The first images in the series were built upon the 6-sided structure of a snowflake, revealing a multi-dimensional landscape within their crystalline structure. As the series progressed the geometry expanded to include images with reflective patterns including 5-sided, 7-sided, 8-sided and more as their subject matter dictated. Faery Star, for instance reflects the structure of a 7 sided star. The Mandala images explore a variety of subject matter. Like the Dreamspace pictures, they depict liminal space. Straddle boundaries and ideas, their subjects are dark and light, whimsical and serious, abstract and realistic. These pictures might present a deep space or a simple flower. There are intentional and accidental imagery contained within them. What you see depends on how you look. But isn’t that really always true in life too?