Looking Up - Large P06170-P00147 giving the final image a

giving the final image a rich sense of depth and detail

and has a distinctive luminosity

this piece brings to life all the colors of the season: warm orange surrounded by bracing

but the backgrounds are altered by montage to create the painterly style

The plasma-cut steel is heated and then bent using wrenches and blacksmith tools

Looking Up - Large P06170-P00147 giving the final image aThis image is part of the artist's ongoing Floraphilia project, which was first published in the prestigious Lenswork Magazine in July of 2010. A second black and white portfolio was published in 2014, and a third portfolio, in color, was published in Seeing in Sixes in 2017. A new Floraphilia portfolio is being reproduced in the May 2018 digital issue of Shadow & Light Magazine. Each photograph is a numbered and signed limited edition archival print