The work in this exhibit might be called “visual alchemy.” It begins with a camera: capturing images of deteriorating surfaces like oxidized metal and chipped paint, aspects of the landscape, and other objects of visual interest (grimy factory windows, walls showing the effects of time, cracked cement, etc.). I like to think that I am on an expedition to reveal beauty in unexpected places. Since the photographs are digital, the works are created on a virtual canvas, by arranging images in relation to one another (side by side, overlapping, on top, underneath). The images blend, new impressions of shape and color organically emerge, and abstractions, based on the real world, are born. The viewer is invited to decipher the parts or simply absorb the new whole.