Altered Landscapes

This is a series of digital collages. For the most part, all of the imagery comes from my own negatives and transparencies, and the resulting collages are spliced together seamlessly using Adobe Photoshop®. The concepts for the images usually arise in one of two ways. Sometimes, I have a concept in my head that I want to visually illustrate, and I must then go out into the real world and find each component of the puzzle. Other times, the idea for the collage comes from placing two single images side by side on my ligtht table, and seeing an interesting relationship between the two that compells a wedding, if you will.

The series is a short one, mainly because I have not spent much time making them since 2000. They are extraordinarily time-consuming, and since my brief love-affair with the computer, I have once again returned to photographing single images with my 4x5 camera. That is not to say that I will not one day return to the digital collage. I most certainly will.