“What is seen and called a picture is what remains—an evidence.”
Philip Guston
It was in a slideshow during an intermediate photography class that the artist was first introduced to the work of Joel-Peter Witkin. Seeing his work for the first time was an awakening. The marks left from his scratching on the negative and other manipulations done during the printing process became the genesis for where this work would come from. Witkin combined with, Man Ray, the Pictorialist movement, Andreas Rentsch, and Ilan Wolff, among others, have pushed this work to where it is now in each their own way. The work is a celebration and exploration into the creative process of the artist. The work is created intuitively using a torch, varying types of metal sheets, also experimentation with darkroom chemicals and the order and methods in which they are applied, use of toners, and a “slow-burn” technique involving the paper being exposed for multiple days in the elements. The work truly is about “what remains—an evidence.”
