Air Above

 Looking up is a way to anticipate positive thoughts, signs of hope and looking at the brighter side of life.  Looking up is hope for a future.  Looking up at the air above reveals movement of clouds, mist, and objects carried in the wind and at the same time allows ones thoughts to escape.

 The air changes with the seasons and at times falls to the ground as a foggy mist enveloping anything in close vision.  Whether the air is clear or foggy, wind carries debris and all these states represent stages of life.  At age seven my son looked up at the clouds and proclaimed that the clouds made the faces of all the people who had died. Never still, never repeating patterns in the air are a metaphor for life itself.  Always changing and moving forward while looking up.

 The photographs I use become ingredients for larges compositions.  I take parts and pieces from a series of photographs and place them together to create a mood that conveys the experience of a moment in time.