This piece reflects upon the nature of image reversal and the constructive
effects that it can have. By running a solid dark blue line down the exact
center of the canvas, the left and right halves each become independent
entities and complete works in their own regards. When bringing either
side's mirror image into the picture, a larger world is constructed as a
street corner and intersection are formed seamlessly. Angularity is
essential to the piece with regard to perception of perspective.
What started out innocuously enough as a rendition of children's
crayons gave way to the ironic symbolism of Blackout. In a typical
blackout, the blackness envelops a world of color, thus blacking it
out. However, in this digital painting, we can see that the colors are
clearly unifying against the blackness (or black crayon as the case
may be), and leaving it out of the polychromatic unification. This
piece further familiarizes children with the various colors of the
spectrum which they encounter daily, including standards and more
unusual hybrids such as blue-green.
Submitting to the purity of the geometric form, this piece represents a look
backward into an ever-evolving technological age. This disk present in this
digital painting is indeed the variety of 5" floppy disk which was used to store
information digitally from personal computers. It had been relegated to the
backwaters of data storage following the advent of the popular 3" diskette which
succeeded it, and the new format won widespread favor due to its increased storage capacity, compact size,
and overwrite protection capability. Although still in use by some, the 5" floppy
disk has largely fallen into the company of the 8-track audio cassette and the
rotary telephone. They are true advances of times gone by, and through
Floppy Disk, we may remember them.
Minimalism of form brings Coffee Or Tea to the table (so to speak), and ponders
a question which allows for viewer interpretation. Line curvature was the key element
of this piece, with color following close behind. Pure white was filtered through fine
grains of yellow to arrive at a custom-made cream color suitable for representing a
morning beverage such as coffee or tea.
This piece depicts the soothing calm and soft intrigue of a quiet art gallery. Just as the
familiar artwork on the left wall symbolizes something that we have created, so does the
other painting (which is just out of our field of vision) symbolize the notion that what's
around the corner may be of our creation as well. In a nutshell, what lies ahead for us
is often what we make of it. It was a great deal of fun to create this piece as it afforded
me the opportunity to relive the magic of Winter by literally recreating it all over again.
Here we see a glimpse of night, viewed at a distance, perhaps telescopically. This piece
conveys the serene still of a moonlit country evening as a home's occupant gazes out at the
scenic nearby riverside and bridge crossing, possibly in anticipation of a visitor's imminent
arrival or simply to marvel at nature's miracles. Line curvature was a key component in
constructing this piece, as was the careful placement of individual pixels to create more
complex forms.
This piece employs a duality found inherently in the natural world, be it the contrast between
day and night, man and woman, or white and black as the case may be. Positive and negative
space are intertwined against themselves to create a whole, mirroring the philosophy of the
Chinese yin and yang forces of active vs. passive, masculine vs. feminine. Line curvature
was essential in creating a delicate nexus between opposite yet complimentary forms.


