The body of work I offer for your consideration to be presented at the 2024 Review Santa Fe is entitled Vintage Silver: A View Through My Cameraless Lens.

I created this work using vintage glass plate negatives, and after extensive experimentation, I realized that I could work with these plates to create images.

As a photographer, I have always been fascinated with different equipment possibilities, working with a range of equipment from 35mm to 8 x 10, as well as pinhole cameras. As a landscape photographer, I realized I could build lenses that play on early years when attempts to form an image on a glass or metal plate were first conceived.

My journey went hand in hand with learning about all the image-making possibilities – cyanotypes, platinum, gravure, and silver gelatin prints – and I began to realize these materials' exciting abstract image-making opportunities.

In my early years, I was driven by my awareness that the work required me to fully engage all of the basic design elements I have always valued. Form and function. Rhythm and repetition. Structure and space. Quality of line and texture. These principles continue to inspire me on the path of image- making.

By applying my curiosity about materials with the desire to create these abstract images, I hope the photographs inspire viewers to engage with them and question where abstraction can live within an art form known to be representational of the world around us.

All images are gelatin silver prints, which are printed approximately 21 x 17 and 30 x 23 inches.