"We
do not see what we see…only what we remember..."* My
art is about light, time, perception, beauty and memory.
My process starts in nature. I use the digital camera
and the computer, which can discern more color and light
values than the human eye and enable me to describe more
clearly, more intimately and more distinctively the texture
of natural space. Paradoxically, the digital process,
once conceived as anti-human, evolves into a sensuous
memory of the natural world stimulating viewers into
an intimate experience of the dreamy fluid environs that
nature evokes.
My recent series Icelandia describes a natural landscape of ice, snow,
rocks and sky. The open, barren lavaland is a pristine reserve of black and white,
water, air and sky. These images of a coolly temperate space define a late winter
sanctuary. Slightly blurred forms, bright light and the landscapes' rich and
textured palette of mostly white, evocatively draw out the memory of the natural
world. The viewer's mental space, reminded of being in the elements, the boundaries
blurred between outer and personal, is transformed into a state of contemplation
of the cycle of life and death, and the experiences of dreaming, sleep and remembering.
*Paraphrase
of a comment by the late composer of the New York
School, Morton Feldman. Cited in a lecture by Clark
Lunberry, “Remembrance of Things Present:
Steven Foster’s Repetition Series Photographs,
Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories” geocities.com |