ABOUT THE INTRALUCENT SERIES:

In 2002 my wife asked, "Could you use that abstract technique to make a Valentine card?" I set about the task in a flash, so to speak. In my efforts to finesse an appropriate shape for a valentine heart I discovered a whole new world for me, that of color, a lot of color.  Most of my life I had avoided color; preferring the nuance of B&W, now I went for the most pigmentation and saturation I could muster, and printing digitally made that possible.

Basically, I shine various lights on various materials, through color filters, on to a white background.I use projection, refraction, reflection, interference, dispersion, and polarization. I play with the laws of optics, chromatics and relativity, though not in any measurable way. These images are not of any specific subject matter; they are pure light constructs, whenever a pattern appeals to me I take a photo of it, I scan these negatives and finalize them in the computer.

Often I notice that the patterns have taken on the look of flowers,  landscapes, cosmic energies, or anthropomorphic shapes.  Sometimes I spin them further in the direction they are leaning, sometimes I leave the images as they are.