I’ve always been seduced by the language of color and its use and these photographic works are stripped down - being about color, texture and structure this is achieved with minimal alteration of the image itself but with saturation of the colors found in the image and heightened contrast altering the natural palette significantly. The photographs are printed on a cotton rag paper giving these images a feeling of a painting or drawing in place of a crisp color photograph enhancing their abstract qualities.
The original “Organic Abstracts” were created in 2010, they were images taken in-between or around other series I was creating, and the abstracts in my environment caught my attention - moss and lichen photographed in their natural locations up close removing the references of where they were found.
In 2020 during the pandemic quarantine, I decided to return to this topic for an addition to the body of work. Solitary walks and time having an enhancing effect on noticing the minutia of nature, it seemed like the perfect moment to allow myself to get lost in these abstractions once again, somehow replicating the experience of life being paired down to it’s own abstracted moment.
