ASSEMBLAGES

A major body of work since 2004 has been a series of purely digital works on paper, each composed from dozens or hundreds of individual digital images. Pieces typically start with an overall composition upon which I then drape my subject, stretching or rearranging it as necessary, and sometimes supplementing it with images from other subjects. Although the final pieces might appear photographic because the raw data is gathered with a camera, I think of them as blurring distinctions which have traditionally separated painting, drawing and photography.

I bring each image file into the larger piece and join them by hand, one by one, so that I can consider every juncture where two or more images meet, on its own and in light of the larger composition. My resolution at each of these junctures - what Cézanne called "passage" - gives these pieces their cubistic texture which is an important part of my vocabulary.