"Cefalù Variation No. 1"

"Cefalù Variation No. 2"

"Cefalù Variation No. 3"

"Cefalù Variation No. 4 (Uprising at Dawn)"

"Cefalù Variation No. 5 (Sanctuary)"

"Cefalù Variation No. 6"

Cefalù Variations, 2022

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"Brandenburg Gate, Column II (thermal reveal)"

"Brandenburg Gate, Column VII Facing Southwest (thermal reveal)"

"Brandenburg Gate, Column III looking South (thermal reveal)"

"Brandenburg Gate, Column III Looking North (thermal reveal)"

"Brandenburg Gate, Column V Facing West"

"Brandenburg Gate, Column VI Facing North (thermal reveal)"

The Brandenburg Gate series, 2019-2021

The Cefalù Variations were made between February and December 2022. All six began from the exact same raw material, a 34.5” x 39” piece composed using 46 images of a section of stone floor in the Cathedral in Cefalù, Sicily. That is to say, all six pieces started as an exact copy of each other. I chose this section of floor because the subtle natural colors and the overlapping pattern of stones and image files were both neutral and yet alive with possibilities. Each variation explores different ideas in depth, motion, composition and color in ways I have not done, or been able to do, before. My subject matter is no longer the floor itself, but impressions and emotions quite unassociated with what my camera recorded.

I have been drawn to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate (1791) since I first saw it from afar in 1986. In 2019 I was finally able to go to it, to touch it and see its colors and textures and scars in person. With its history, how does it reflect what it has absorbed? I visited over three days and focused my attention on ten columns, five facing East and five facing West. Some in this series are the story of their full circumference, some are smaller parts of that story, and some are thermal reveals that tap into the otherwise invisible trauma held deepest within the stone.