Sunday, July 23, 2006

Painting with fire began in 1984. It was the year the farmhouse I grew up in burnt down. I visited the wrekage a whole year later to find a few slides that I had taken, while travelling around the world , they were miraculously transformed by the Winter, Summer and then Fall............... into my hands on such a critically known year 1984. They were so much like images of a nuclear holocost that I decided to immitate this look. Hense I found my inspirational MUSE right there in these violented recreated images and from that great loss of personal meaning use it as a catalist to create images with another kind of meaning.Is it beautiful or deadly came to speak.... A bronze metal winning image exists here from the 1988 NYC International Art Competion. Ivan Karp from OK Harris being one of the Judges. It's called flowering destruction.

These are slides painted with common toxic household items then set on fire. On some of the slides the image is burnt right off than miraculously like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, I am able to burn the image back onto the slide without burning through it , on the emulsion side. The slides are still sticky all these years later. Although the images resonate with the predicted Kaos of George Orwells 1984...David Bowie also added to the frenzie. 1984 for me was the year when I lost the parental home and the comfort that would provide psycologically as a place I could always go back home to. These images have many meanings and some are also inspired by the impressionistic movement and hense I liked the idea of immitating Van Gough and others, but particularly him. There are alot more and the slides are printed on Cibacrome for permanance.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006


Saturday, April 15, 2006



Wednesday, April 05, 2006







Altered States or Painting with Fire and Chemicals on Slides

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Darkroom Photography Magazine's last page.


Hail Mary



North Pole 2069

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Flowering Destruction

Thursday, March 16, 2006








Altered States or Painting with Fire