Photography is another very strong passion of mine, although I have not been able to practice it much except for a little during the summer. This fall when I will be going full time for my Art degree at UW-L I will once again be taking some photo classes. In the meantime I found some images that were languishing on a shelf, and I thought they deserved to see the light of day. More can be viewed here.

A few semesters ago I thought I was permanently in love with (stone) lithography. Althought I no longer consider myself solely a lithographer, I still very much enjoy and appreciate the medium. Hopefully before too long I will be able to return to it for a while. Perhaps I can even learn some new techniques with plate lithography which my artist friend Peggy Koenig has been encouraging. Here are a couple images produced in the UW-L printshop over the past few semesters. More can be found here.

This semester at the UW-L printshop working in intaglio has been a good one. I dragged some old copper plates out of one of my drawers, and proceeded to work on them with new etchings. When finished I felt I had taken them along a good path, but not to their final state. Wondering what else I could do with them while waiting for inspiration for the next state of the plates, I decided to try chine colle. It was great fun, educational, and quite surprising at times seeing how various decorative papers worked with the plates. Here are a couple of the images, and more can be found here.

I found Akiko Taniguchi on the internet. Her images touch my love of the natural world, and the beauty that surrounds us every day. Akiko Taniguchi’s abstract visual language is based on her continuous research into forms found in the natural world. She looks at connections and forces of regeneration that exist in different environments. Taniguchi starts off with photographs of natural phenomena such as cloud formations, ice crystals, or cracks found in earth that have been parched by drought. Her hand-generated responses to these photographs heighten the rhythms, patterns and structures occurring in nature.