After many years of experience with traditional forms of printmaking, I find the medium of computer printmaking intriguing. The original images that I use to create digital prints include slides, photographs, collages, hand painted paper or canvas and found objects. Images are scanned into a computer to be manipulated, color adjusted, and combined into an original art work, using an ink jet printer.

Old photographs can inspire real or imagined recollections of the past. I asked friends and relatives to allow me to copy their favorite old photos for my collection. Each picture suggested a story from the past, but I choose to reinvent another context for each scenario. Integrating early 20th century portraits with contemporary images revealed intimate moments in time and place. I am "....presenting in plain sight what does not actually exist." (Cennino Cennini 1437)

Our memories accumulate until they blend reminiscences with imagination.
I have many recollections from the past, both happy and incredibly tragic, but the viewers of my "Past Tense" series are free to blend their own remembrances with the illusions I have presented to them.

Each Digital Montage is printed on heavyweight matte paper with pigmented ink in an edition size of 10, plus 3 Artist's Proofs, unless otherwise noted.