PATTERNS AND TONES

SHADOWLAND Photographing shadows for the paper ballet was everything I was hoping it would be: elusive, fleeting, mysterious, transparent, a subconscious perspective. I started by thinking about what shadows I wanted my dancers to have and how their recognizable shapes would relate to and effect the relationships between their images, the background and when seen in a pair, to the other dancer. As I have been creating this series, I have continually been aware of and tried to create tension between the dancers while at the same time incorporating the graphic and natural elements of the sets. Now with this last layer, I am hoping to complete the narrative with these shadows. Although completely independent from both the dancer or the background, I wanted to create a third element that would connect the other two elements together subconsciously. To represent the unfocused awareness and inner knowledge of the dancers visually, I decided to employ shadow to represen...

With the New Year, came New Ideas, resulting in  New Work!  This year I decided to incorporate dance into my newest work  "Fleeting Perspectives: A Paper Ballet",   as it is an art form that fascinates me. I wanted to further explore the figure in space and represent the gesture of movement in my images. It is a great feat for these performers to use their body to convey expression and emotion. I also love it when they collaborate with other artists such as set designers, lighting specialists, costume designers, choreographers and musicians to complete the vision of the director.  My love of dance began when I became an ice skater when I was 3 years old. I skated until I was 13. I can attribute my love of music and performing to the environment I grew up in during those formative years. I can still remember the "Ice Capades" I performed in: from being a can-can girl, a skeleton in black light, to kicking my leg high into the air while skating in a ...