Tracking Light in Dark Times, Seeking Solace in a Pandemic
In response to the pandemic lockdown, I gave myself a photographic assignment to capture at least one iPhone photo every day to keep my eyes and brain creative and engaged. Being confined to a single location for many months challenged me to find a fresh photo each day. Seeking light in a dark time, I began photographing sun patterns streaming into my house. With light as the subject, I tracked the sun’s progression across walls as time crept around the wheel of the year. When an interesting pattern appeared I had to respond immediately, chasing it as it moved and changed, and then was gone. That exact image would never return. My daily photo journal was subtly different every day, a personal solar clock, like living in a sun dial.
This image is from an October afternoon. Sunlight bounced off an unlit candleholder, brushing the wall with shifting shapes as patterns rose and melted. The monochrome print reflects my feeling of monotone time. Yet even in the monotonous everyday, there are delicate moments of discovery, wonder and delight, resilient gifts of hope when we open our eyes to see.
From Light Play, a daily pandemic lockdown photo journal. B&W Fine Art.
Acrylic, collage and drawing
Seeking light in a dark time during the pandemic lockdown, I began photographing sun patterns streaming into my house. Morning sunlight moved across white walls, but in the afternoon, the setting sun entered west facing windows during Happy Hour. Met with cut crystal goblets, sunlight fractured into colorful, moving refractions. This image is a composite from several photos in the Pandemic Happy Hour series. My resulting pandemic visual journal contains hundreds of photos and time-lapse videos, documenting a journey of hope and resilience during uncertain, challenging times.
Pandemic Happy Hour series
Tracking Light in Dark Times, Seeking Solace in a Pandemic
Seeking light in a dark time during the pandemic lockdown, I began photographing sun patterns streaming into my house. Morning sunlight moved across white walls, but in the afternoon, the setting sun entered west facing windows during Happy Hour. Met with cut crystal goblets, sunlight fractured into colorful, moving refractions. This image is a composite from several photos in the Pandemic Happy Hour series. My resulting pandemic visual journal contains hundreds of photos and time-lapse videos, documenting a journey of hope and resilience during uncertain, challenging times.
Pandemic Happy Hour series
Timeless, 48″x24″, Oil on board
Four Currents, Four pieces, 24″x24″ each
Panorama of the medieval Labyrinth, candlelit for a modern pilgrimage. Created in 1201 from earlier meanders and set in the west entrance floor to the cathedral, the labyrinth was intended for peaceful contemplation. The single pathway design is a gentle guided walk which provides a centering tool for transitioning from the mundane, chaotic outside world, into the quiet, ordered sacred space for the grand church.
Labyrinths of Spirit & Grace series
Fine Art Photography Print on archival watercolor paper, 20” x 26”
Twilight panorama of the castle from the Pont Neuf bridge spanning the River Aude. The hilltop site of Carcassonne has been inhabited since Neolithic times, a natural convergence of strategic historic trade routes which linked the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. Home to Celts, Romans, Visigoths, Muslims, crusader knights and Cathars, the Cité is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, celebrated for the exceptional preservation and restoration of its medieval citadel.
Places of Presence series
Photo print infused on archival aluminum.
Black glazed ceramic platter with gold leaf. 24″ diameter
Slumped glass platter with gold leaf detail. 23″ diameter
