These unique digital prints combine layers of meaning and imagery; my original drawings, lithographs, and photographs are combined with symbols and graphic elements to create visually compelling and complex works that push at the edges of what is possible with new media and seek to redefine old processes. While some of my prints are solo images meant to stand-alone many are series composed of multiple prints varying in number from three to sixty-three. These print groupings are either placed side-by-side to make linear or grid arrangements or they are hand-sewn or riveted together to form a single larger image. Each individual print within these series is a digitally manipulated composite that mixes traditional media; my drawings, prints, and photos; with images and symbols I have rendered digitally to make something entirely new from the images, patterns, colors, and textures.

The sources of imagery and meaning for these prints are drawn from personal experience; my surroundings supply imagery and my graphic work analyzing word and image has introduced additional forms, symbols, and references. My changing surroundings have always informed the subject matter of my prints and drawings from the underground landscapes of New York’s subways to the large-scale images of the open-air markets under the southern skies of Italy. The simple objects found at home in Virginia from seashells to leaves and from numbers to letters now provide the starting point for my digital prints where the familiar is intertwined with other imagery and references to create prints meant to visually engage the viewer with the object while alluding to other ideas or concepts.

The process of interweaving imagery from traditional and new artistic processes through multiple digital layers to create a final merged image that comments on our world through whimsy, political commentary, or both is sometimes a long narrative journey or story. It is my hope that the final images composed of many elements; whether old or new, detailed or abstract, anecdotal or scientific; will engage the viewer to find their own narrative or reaction to the shared images and experiences, whether true or fictitious.