Sampler

Filmmaker Werner Herzog says an artist must use any means necessary to reach “the ecstatic truth,” a knowing mix of truth and lies that gets at the emotional core of a chosen subject more accurately than a simple “accountant’s truth”. This attitude underlies my approach to photography, or more precisely digital art. The photograph is just the beginning of the process, it's the raw digital information that can then be pushed and pulled, inverted and subverted, and ultimately transformed into a new entity, imbued with its own novel symbolic force. This approach underlies all of my work but is most evident in my treatment of Brazilian carnival. In this process, which I call “Fauvetography” because of its emphasis on expansive colorations, the original photographs are building blocks, fragments of visual experience that can be digitally combined in a sort of photographic bricolage

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