Stone Free #15

​Stone Free: Abstract black and white photography is my passion.  As the Polish avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski once said, “Art is an individual way of seeing rather than about rote reproduction of a collectively agreed-upon reality.”  This statement embodies the core philosophy of my photographic work. In the series “Stone Free,” I exercise the abstract spirit, capturing the essence of the geological formations of the American Southwest - taking them out of their usual context and viewing them in a new way.  Abstractions of stones free them from their literal content and meaning, entering into the mystery of what constitutes reality.  These photographs were on display in an invited one-woman show at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos during the months of December, 2017 and January, 2018, and three of them were selected for a group show at Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA in March, 2018.