BABY
In the Baby series, the child is the protagonist. The layers of photos and visual ephemera are the spaces for the child to inhabit. “Shadow Of The Babies” is a simple example of layering with only three digital layers. One layer is made up of a clipped image from twenty years ago. On a second layer is a painting from my Analogue series called “March Of The Five,” with running babies stenciled on wood. The third layer is a color field that influences transparency and color from the other two layers. Hundreds of changes are made in each layer to each element, whether it be to the size, the color a texture or whether another images is added. This goes on until an AH HA moment is achieved. The ideal size of a print is determined by number of pixels with latitude for different print qualities. That means that the larger the print viewed at close range the more pixelation is visible. Think about Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece “Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte” when viewed from a few feet away all you see points of color but viewed from the ideal distance it is one unified image.