LensCulture Art Photography Award Submission

The concept of "seeing" is at the heart of my practice, and these 5 images, while diverse in theme, style, and technique, reflect my creative objective: invite the viewer to replace the window through which they see the world, with a lens that interprets the world into something that is at once familiar and foreign. My work starts with photographs, taken around the world. Treating the photograph as my canvas, images are digitally "repainted" by hand with a "brush", sometimes in layers, sometimes pixel by pixel. What is critical, is understanding that my work is not about digital manipulation or software, but about my vision, and my ability to transform the canvas into an aesthetically compelling, memorable, visual experience.