Urban Studies
These “Urban Studies” are intended to be exactly what their name describes: straightforward, honest, urban-inspired imagery. They are, simply, local scenes that caught my eye and have been filtered through my process and myself. Charged with the task of rediscovering the city I was raised in, much to my surprise, I found beauty and character in down town Fresno, disproving many of my own ill-formed preconceptions.

Digital Assemblage
Any source of imagery is fair game. I work from digital photographs and scanned objects and images, digitally enhancing them to distort the ‘recognizable’ and extract largely gestural forms. Working digitally provides a seductive level of immediacy, enabling me to rapidly filter large amounts of scavenged imagery through my process and myself.

For me, subjective considerations have become secondary to the visual impact of form. These works are my reaction to what I perceive as the chaotic, underlying fabric of any arbitrary visual experience, which is never static, containing a variety of visual scenarios existing, oscillating, in an infinite number of states simultaneously. These 'visual possibilities' are an amalgamation of my experiences compressed into a single instance, or frame. This distillation is intended to amplify the revelation of pure form, reducing my visual world to a selection of colors, shapes, lines, etc.

Filter Generations
This new series is the result of years of image manipulation and the aggregate impact it has had on the way I interact the world around me through the computer, the possibilities inherent in any visual instance and the obfuscation and revelation of pure form. Pushing the limits of image reduction and amplification has become second nature, an intuitive process, for me. I extract whatever is useful: patterns, colors, shapes, etc.

Traditionally, image manipulation and the programs that are used to process and alter imagery use ‘filters’. Applying a series of these to an image can produce an infinite variety of effects. In the spirit of this usage paradigm, I have generated a unique filtering process that uses the inherent display qualities of modern computer equipment as an industry specific anchor point – an expression of our visual experience through and with the computer. As the images are manipulated, generations of altered images are produced, similar to the change that happens in the sound industry when analog recordings are duplicated and we experience a generational loss of fidelity. The works in “Filter Generations” are a visual analogue for this phenomenon.