Photography

I began making diptychs in response to a specific call for diptychs. Since combining images for that call, I have continued making diptychs. Sometimes the combined images have come from the same place (ex the root, pond and transit photos); sometimes not at all. While my primary interest is visual, as I respond to what calls to me, in constructing these diptychs, I am working with previously created images to give birth to a third. In the case of three of the six diptychs here, there are personal connections. I am the model in the Caravaggio picture, being the subject in a digital cinematography workshop where we worked to replicate lighting. The M and W in the wall photo are my great aunt and uncle from a photo made in the era of the mosaic image which is part of commissioned MTA art. The man at the right of the apparition is named Francis, seen here at the memorial river paddle of an athlete colleague who died young. He has also passed on and the image of St. Francis is from a