Twelve Meeting Halls: Front Views with Gabel Roofs
Starting top, reading left to right:
Former Arlington Grange no 528, Whitefield, ME. Evening Star Grange no 183, Washington, ME. South Sangerville Grange no 335, South Sangerville, ME. Gov. Brooks Odd Fellows Hall no 142, Brooksville, ME. Mystic Tie Grange no 58, Kenduskeag, ME. Valley Grange no 144, Guilford, ME. Former Grange Eastern Star no 1, Hampden, ME. Vernon Valley Masonic Lodge no 99, Mt. Vernon, ME. Pleiades Masonic Lodge no 173, Milbridge, ME. Castine Grange no 250, Castine, ME. Union Hall, Vienna, ME. Former Progressive Grange no 513, Winslows Mills, ME.
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Size: 28.694 ” H x 31.5” W Date: 2024
Old Surry Village School, Surry, ME
Former School preserved and repurposed as a community center.
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Sizes: 30” square and 23” square
Date: 2024
“Former Indian River Grange, Addison, ME”
(Recently went dark.)
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Size: 22 (h) x 29” (w)
Date: 2023
Reversing Hall, former Odd Fellows Hall, George Washington no. 23, Pembroke, ME
Repurposed as an agrarian library to foster organic farmer practices by the Greenhorns.
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Size: 13.33” (h) x 20” (w)
Date: 2023
“Three-Quarter View of Reversing Hall, former Odd Fellows Hall, George Washington no. 23, Pembroke, ME.”
Repurposed by the arts and cultural organization the Greenhorns as an agrarian library to foster regenerative farmer practices.
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Size: 18.67” (h) x 28” (w) Date: 2023
Former Crescent Masonic Lodge no. 78, Pembroke, ME
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Size: 30” (h) x 30” (w)
Date: 2023
“Collection of Nine Side Views of Maine Meeting Halls: Variation Two”
(Manchester Grange no 172, Manchester. ME, Huntoon Hill Grange no 398, Wiscasset, ME, Kings Mills Union Hall, Home to Whitefield Grange and Fish and Game Club, Whitefield, ME, Valley Grange no 144, Guildford, ME, Olive Branch Masonic Lodge no 124, Charleston, ME, Kenduskeag Masonic Hall no 137, Kenduskeag, ME, South Sangerville Grange no 335, Sangerville, ME, Tuscan Masonic Lodge no 106, Addison, ME. Former West Bay Grange, Gouldsboro, ME.)
Medium: Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Size: 23” (H) x 33.5” (W) Print Size: 31” (h) x 40”
Date 2024
Joshua Davis Odd Fellows Hall no. 145, Stonington, ME
Medium: Two Archival Digital Pigment Prints on Canson Infinity Rag.
Image Size: 23” square
Date: 2024
Jonesport Lodge no. 188. A.F. & A. M.
(Home to the Joneport Historical Society), Jonesport, ME
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Size: 23” square and 30” square
Date: 2024
Three-quarter View of Kings Mills Union Hall home to Whtiefield Grange and Fish and Game Club, Whitefield, ME.
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag.
Image size: 22” x 29” Date: 2022
Somerset Grange no 18, Norridgewock, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 30.5” x 30.5” Date: 2022
Collection of Fifteen Meeting Halls found in Hancock and Washington Counties
Starting at the top left and going across and then down left to right:
Gov. Brooks Odd Fellows Hall no. 142, Brooksville, ME. American Legion Cobscook Post no. 59, Pembroke, ME. Pleiades Masonic Lodge no. 173, Milbridge, ME. Perry Grange no. 324, Perry, ME. Alexander Grange no. 304, Alexander, ME. Odd Fellows Blue Hill Lodge no. 79 and Ira Berry Masonic Hall no. 128, Blue Hill, ME. Former Odd Fellows Hall, Brooklin no 133, Brooklin, ME. Jonesport Masonic Lodge no. 188 and home to Jonesport Historical Society, Jonesport, ME. Indian River Grange no. 330, Addison, ME. Surry Village School, Surry, ME. Castine Grange no. 250, Castine, ME. Former West Bay Grange, Goldsboro, ME. Joshua Davis Odd Fellows Hall no. 145, Stonington, ME. Former Lubec Grange no. 434, Lubec, ME. Jonesboro Grange no. 357, Jonesboro, ME.
Archival Digital Pigment Prints on Canson Infinity Rag
Size: 35.75” (h) x 30.5” (w)
Date: 2023
Former East Blue Hill Post Office
Medium: Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Size: 30.869” (h) x 29” (w)
Print Size: 35 x 37
Date: 2025
“Diptych: Gov. Brooks Odd Fellows Hall no.142, Brooksville, ME. Photographed in 2019 and in 2024 after going dark.”
Medium: Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 17” (h) x 34”
Date: 2024
“Former Odd Fellows Hall, Brooklin, ME
Medium: Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Size: 29” (w) x 19.332” (h)
Print Size: 26.375 x 33.875
Date: 2025
American Legion Cobscook Post no. 59, Pembroke, ME
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Size: 13.33” (h) x 20” (w)
Date: 2023
Former Jacksonville Grange no 358, East Machias, ME
Archival Digital Pigment Prints on Canson Infinity Rag
Image sizes: 30” square (w) and 23” square
Date: 2023
Mariners Lodge no 53, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Bristol, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Size: 22” x 29” Date: 2022
“Rural Hall, Surry, ME”
Home to the Surry Garden Club since 1948.
Medium: Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Size: 22” (h) x 29” Date: 2025
Farmington Grange no 12, Farmington, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 15 x 15” Date: 2022
Diptych, Front and Back View of Alna Meeting House, Alna, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 20” w x 13.33/each Date: 2021
Grand Lake Grange no 375, Weston, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 15” x 15” Date: 2022
Androscoggin Grange no 8, Greene, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 22” x 29” Date: 2024
Three-quarter View of Abyssinian Meeting House, Portland, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
image size: 11” x 14” Date: 2022
Three-quarter View Pownal Lodge no 119, Stockton, Springs, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 20” w x 13.33 Date: 2021
Back of Indian River Grange no 330, Indian River, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Size: 15” square Date: 2021
Three-quarter View of Eureka Lodge no 84, Saint George, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 20” w x 13.33” Date: 2021
Odd Fellows Blue Hill Lodge no 79 and Ira Berry Masonic Hall no 128, Blue Hill, ME.
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 13.333” x 20” Date: 2021
South Sangerville Grange no 335, Sangerville, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image Size: 22” x 29” Date: 2021
Three-quarter View of Village Lodge no 26, A. F. and A. M. and home to Eastern Star Electa no 2, Bowdoinham, Maine
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 13” x 22” Date: 2022
Ripley Grange no 462, Ripley, ME.
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 7.5” x 11” Date: 2021
Masonic Temple no 52, Dover-Foxcroft, ME.
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 7.5” x 11” Date: 2021
Diptych. Front and Back of Orient Masonic Hall no 15, Thomaston, ME
Collective Size: 6.833” x 20” Date: 2020
Former Odd Fellows Hall, Sheepscot no 122, Coopers Mills, ME
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 7.5” x 11” Date: 2021
Former Arlington Grange, no 528, Whitefield, ME
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 7.5” x 11” Date: 2021
”Masonic Block Former Home to Piscataquis Lodge A.F. & A.M. no 44 Milo, ME
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Size: 18.67” (h) x 28” (w) Date: 2023
Former Progressive Grange no 513, Winslows Mills, ME
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 7.5” x 11” Date: 2021
Former Grange, Eastern Star no 1, Hampden, ME.
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 22” x 29” Date: 2023
Former Juanita lodge no 122 Knights of Pythias, Abbot Village, ME
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Image size: 7.5” x 11” Date: 2021
”Diptych: Rear Views of Indian River Grange no 330, Addison, ME and Former Windsor Grange now Town Hall, Windsor, ME”
Archival Digital Pigment Print on Canson Infinity Rag
Size: 28” (h) x 20.43 (w) Date: 2021
Title: Heart and Hand Diptych (variation one)
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan. Platinum Palladium.
SIZE: 6.5” H x 11” W DATE: 2019
Detail: Heart and Hand Diptych Variation One (one of two photographic prints)
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan.
SIZE: 6.5” H x 5.5” W
Detail: Striking Bell (one of four photographic prints)
Medium: Toned Cyanotype.
Size: 5.5” H x 5.5” W
Title: Heart and Hand (variation eight) Diptych
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan. Platinum Palladium.
SIZE: 6.5” H x 11” W DATE: 2019
Detail: Heart and Hand Diptych
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan.
SIZE: 6.5” H x 5.5” W
Detail: All Seeing Eye (one of two photographic prints)
Medium: Ziatype overprinted with Cyan.
Size; 6.5” H x 6.5” W
Title: Heart and Hand Diptych (variation 2)
Medium: Cyanotype overprinted with Gum Bichromate. Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan.
SIZE: 6.5” H x 11” W DATE: 2019
Detail: Heart and Hand Diptych
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan.
SIZE: 6.5” H x 5.5” W
Title: Heart and Hand (variation seven) Diptych
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan. Platinum Palladium.
SIZE: 6.5” H x 11” W DATE: 2019
Diptych: Fraternal Sun Face
Medium: Cyanotype overprinted with Gum. Cyanotype.
Size: 6.5” H x 12.5” W Date: 2019
Detail: Fraternal Sun Face
Medium: Cyanotype overprinted with Gum.
Size; 6.25” H x 6.5” W
Title: Heart and Hand (Variation Six) Diptych
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan. Platinum Palladium.
SIZE: 6.5” H x 11” W DATE: 2019
Detail: Heart and Hand Quartet (variation four)
Medium: Cyan overprinted with Gum Bichromate.
SIZE: 6.5” H x 5.5” W
Title: Fiat Lux: Collection of 12 unique photographic prints.
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan and Cyanotypes overprinted with Gum Bichromate. Overall Size: 22.5” H x 30” W
Date: 2020
DETAIL from composite: Fiat Lux. One of 12 unique photographic prints.
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with cyan.
Individual print size: 6.5” (h) x 6.5” (w)
Over all size: 22.5” H x 30” W
DETAIL from composite: Fiat Lux. One of 12 unique photographic prints.
Medium: Cyanotype overprinted with gum bichromate.
Individual print size: 6.5” (h) x 6.5” (w)
Over all size: 22.5” H x 30” W
DETAIL from composite: Fiat Lux. One of 12 unique photographic prints.
Medium: Cyanotype overprinted with gum bichromate.
Individual print size: 6.5” (h) x 6.5” (w)
Over all size: 22.5” H x 30” W
DETAIL from composite: Sun Series. One of 12 unique photographic prints.
Medium: Cyanotype overprinted with gum bichromate.
Individual print size: 6.5” (h) x 6.5” (w)
Over all size: 22.5” H x 30” W
ALBUM SERIES: SUN & MOON
Medium:Collection of 66 unique ziatype & cyanotype prints with applied gouache & watercolor.
Size: 20” (h) x 36” (w) Date: 2017
COSMOS: Colors of Night
Medium: Four unique photographic prints: Gum Bichromate. Platinum Palladium, Gold Toned Kallitype, Cyanotype.
Size: 13-3/4” x 13-3/4” Date: 2020
Diptych: HEWNOAKES: PINE CLAD Day to Night (Variation three)
Medium: Kallitype Individual print size: 5.5” (h) x 7.5” (w)
Collective Size: 5.5” H x 15” W Date: 2018
Diptych: HEWNOAKES: NIGHT & DAY
Medium: Platinum Palladium overprinted with Cyan & Gum Bichromate Print. Individual print size: 5.5” (h) x 7.5” (w)
Collective Size: 5.5” H x 15 W” Date: 2020
DIPTYCH: ICE JAMS Variation Five
Medium: Gum bichromate.
Individual Print Size: 6” (h) x 6” (w)
Collective Size: 6” x 12” Date: 2018
ALBUM SERIES: ICE CAVE
Medium: Collection of 54 unique ziatypes, cyanotypes and gum bichromate prints.
Size: 33” (h) x 31” (w) Date: 2017
ALBUM SERIES: LAKE 14 VARIATION
Medium: Collection of 48 unique ziatypes, cyanotypes and gum bichromate prints.
Size: 26-3/8 (h) x 35-1/4 (w) Date: 2017
ALBUM SERIES: Eclipse: Sun & Moon
Medium: Collection of 42 unique ziatypes, cyanotypes and gum bichromate prints.
Size: 30-3/4” square Date: 2017
ALBUM SERIES: OCEAN 46 VARIATION, Monhegan, Maine
Medium: Collection of 48 unique ziatypes, cyanotypes and gum bichromate prints.
Size: 26-3/8 (h) x 35-1/4 (w) Date: 2017
ALBUM SERIES: OCEAN 35 VARIATION, Monhegan, Maine
Collection of 42 unique ziatypes, cyanotypes and gum bichromate prints.
Size: 28-5/8 (h) x 33-3/16 (w) Date: 2017
ALBUM SERIES: LAKE
Medium: Collection of 96 unique ziatypes, cyanotypes and gum bichromate prints.
Size: 31” (h) x 45 ” (w) Date: 2016
LAKE VARIATION
Medium: Cyantype.
Size: 6.5” (h) x 6.5” (w) Date: 2018
SCHOOL PORTRAITS
MEDIUM: Comprised of approximately 2,000 found photographs: school portraits, canvas, photo corners, thread, pencil, watercolor & ink.
SIZE: 54" (h) x 42" (w) Date: 2015-2019
MUG SHOT COMPOSITION
Approximately 850 Found Photographs, canvas, photo corners, thread, pencil, watercolor & ink.
SIZE: 82” (h) x 93” (w) DATE: 2014-2018
"SOLO POSE"
MEDIUM: Approximately 400 Found Photographs, canvas, thread, pencil, watercolor & ink.
SIZE: 48 ” (h) x 42 ” (w) DATE: 2014
MUG SHOT QUILT TWO
MEDIUM: Approximately 800 found photographs, canvas, photo corners, thread, pencil, watercolor & ink.
SIZE: 96" (h) x 84" (w) DATE: 2014-2019
OCEAN PATTERN THREE
Medium: Camera-less Photographic Painting. Toned cyanotype on rag paper.
Size: 19-3/4” (h) x 15” (w) Date: 2020
OCEAN STRIPES TWO
Medium: Camera-less Photographic Painting. Toned cyanotype, gum bichromate and pencil on rag paper.
Size: 19-3/4” (h) x 15” (w) Date: 2020
OCEAN CLOUD
Medium: Camera-less Photographic Painting. Toned cyanotype on rag paper.
Size: 19-3/4” (h) x 15” (w) Date: 2020
OCEAN PATTERN TWO
Medium: Camera-less Photographic Painting. Toned cyanotype, gum bichromate on rag paper.
Size: 19-3/4” (h) x 15” (w) Date: 2020
OCEAN CLOUD NOCTURNE
Medium: Camera-less Photographic Painting. Toned cyanotype on rag paper.
Size: 19-3/4” (h) x 15” (w) Date: 2020
OCEAN STRIPES ONE
Medium: Camera-less Photographic Painting. Toned cyanotype, ziatype and gum bichromate on rag paper.
Size: 19-3/4” (h) x 15” (w) Date: 2018
OCEAN PATTERN ONE
Medium: Camera-less Photographic Painting. Toned cyanotype and gum bichromate on rag paper.
Size: 19-3/4” (h) x 15” (w) Date: 2018
HEWNOAKES, PINECLAD
Medium: Camera-less Photographic Painting. Toned cyanotype on rag paper.
Size: 15” (h) x 19-3/4” (w) Date: 2018
BERENICE ONE
MEDIUM: GUM BICHROMATE. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then over painted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-7/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) DATE: 2013
BERENICE 8
MEDIUM: TONED CYANOTYPE. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then tinted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-5/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) Date: 2015
BERENICE SIX
MEDIUM: TONED CYANOTYPE. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then tinted with watercolor.
SIZE: 5-5/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) DATE: 2013
BERENICE 9
MEDIUM: TONED CYANOTYPE. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then tinted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-5/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) Date: 2015
BERENICE 6
MEDIUM: TONED CYANOTYPE. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then tinted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-5/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) Date: 2015
BERENICE FIVE
MEDIUM: TONED CYANOTYPE overprinted with a ZIATYPE. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then over painted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-5/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) DATE: 2013
BERENICE THREE
MEDIUM: GUM BICHROMATE OVER CYANOTYPE. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then over painted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-7/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) DATE: 2013
BERENICE 7
MEDIUM: TONED CYANOTYPE. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then tinted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-5/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) Date: 2015
ANON 3
MEDIUM: Zia Type. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then tinted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-5/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) Date: 2015
ANON 5
MEDIUM: Zia Type. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then tinted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-5/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) Date: 2015
ANON 6
MEDIUM: Gum Bichromate. Printed from a digital negative made from a scan of an original painting, then tinted with gouache & watercolor.
SIZE: 5-5/8” (h) x 4-1/8” (w) Date: 2015
ANON 30
MEDIUM: PAINTING. Gouache, watercolor and pencil on rag paper.
SIZE: 3-1/2" (H) X 2-1/2" (W) DATE: 2012
FOUND PHOTO: ABSTRACT
Snapshot, 4-5/8" x 3.5" 1910
FOUND PHOTO: "FORGOT TO EXTEND BELLOWS"
Polaroid, 3.5" x 4.25" Circa 1975
FOUND PHOTO: BLAST OFF ON TV
Snapshot, 5" x 3.5" CIRCA 1968
FOUND PHOTO: CONDUCTOR ON TV
Snapshot, 4" x 3" 1967
FOUND PHOTO: ECLIPSE ON TV
Color snapshot, 3.5" x 3.5" circa 1970
FOUND PHOTO: CHER ON TV
Color snapshot, 3.5" x 3.5" circa 1970
FOUND PHOTO: MOON LANDING ON TV
Color snapshot 5" x 3.5" 1969
Meeting Hall Maine
Our human desire to come together is expressed in the architectural typologies of Maine’s historic meeting halls. My photographs of these vernacular structures act as portraits. I aim to tell an American story of resiliency, obsolescence and adaptation by reflecting the current state of this once thriving network of translocal movements that were built and maintained collaboratively by local people for generations. As memberships in volunteer societies die out, halls across the state are at risk for being razed or lost for civic use. These community created forums are vital for invigorating American democracy by providing third sector spaces for bringing people together to achieve shared interests.
The disappearance of meeting halls and the erasure of the social good that they bring poses the question: What is the fate of our collective future and democratic systems? As many town squares have moved to virtual locations my photographs aim to highlight this older model for social interaction. This resonates in this moment with a particular force as we look for safe, nonpartisan and secular environments to engender solidarity among citizens.
This multi-year and ongoing photographic exploration began in collaboration with my late husband, Andrew S. Flamm (1967-2018).
Material Culture
These prints are part of an evolving series that appropriates the material culture of American Fraternal Organizations as part of the boarder project: Meeting Hall Maine. For instance, heart and hand staffs are used by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows as teaching tools symbolizing, “That what ever the hand goes to do the heart must go with it”. The sun and the moon and “All Seeing Eye” frequently appear in fraternal imagery. The later represents the cyclical patterns found in nature. The eye represents an omnipresent power in the universe. The hammer striking the bell reflects that human life is finite.
Album Series
Like nature itself, the repetition and proliferation of photographic imagery is used in this series to echo the rhythms of the natural world. My painted imagery or a found photograph have become the point of origin for exploring the permutation of color, pattern and texture that can emanate from a single image using layered combinations of historic photographic printmaking methods. Sequenced together into nonlinear compositions the prints express the repetition yet endless variation of time.
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order”. ––– Jean-Luc Godard
Found Photo "Quilts"
In this series each piece is formed around a collection: mug shots, school pictures or a common snapshot pose. Hundreds of found photos are composed together and sewn onto canvas. From a distance the repetition of shapes and tones read as an abstraction, and upon closer review offers the detailed truth of an individual’s existence. These photographic expressions typify how portraiture, in particular, has proliferated since the advent of photography and underscores its role in forming our cultural and personal identities.
Camera-less Photographic Painting
My painting and photography practice inform one another bringing about hybrid works that reflect the historical dialogue and influence that has existed between these two mediums since the advent of photography.
In this series of camera-less photographic paintings, I use photochemistry in lieu of traditional paint mediums which forces me to be more primitive in my expression. My mark making is used in place of a negative or object as is the case in a traditional print or photogram. Unlike a Chemigram both light and chemistry are used to form my images. This work runs parallel to the groundswell of camera-less photographers working today and adds to the conversation of one-of-a-kind photographic imagery where all methods are in play.
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Mug Shot Portraits
This ongoing series is painted from mug shots. Inspired, in part, by photographic mishaps, such as, the painterly quality of an over or underexposed print. I then turn a painted image back into a photograph (with the use of digital negatives and historic photographic processes) to further explore the confluence of painting and photography. In doing so, I capitalize on the ability to create print multiples of an image that are then over painted to make unique permutations.
Found Photos
As a student of Ray Yoshida’s at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I learned early on that the importance of authorship is secondary to the emotional value of an object and that discovery often begins with the mundane process of wading and sifting through vast amounts of our material culture. Vernacular objects and images have enriched my artistic practice by broadening my own ideas of approaching, making, seeing and defining art.