Photography
Photography is one way I see. It helps me to organize the world into what I want to remember and what I do not. It is a selective eye that often has greater acuity than my own.
Bayview Cemetery Series
Bayview Cemetery in Jersey City, New Jersey had me interested in the way the old mausoleums occupied space and created abstract compositions. Then I was also interested in how the trees had, through neglect encroached on the headstones creating a sense of eeriness in the way the graves had been left to time.
Between Tombs photograph
Violated Mausoleum photograph
Childs Grave photograph
Between Tombs photograph
Natale
Our Italian American Christmas usually lasts several days. We are usually bored, but always dress in new clothes. This year it was held at my mother's house which is as much the subject for its clutter as the family members.
Miguel with Gun photograph
Sue on the Phone photograph
Millie Retuning Home photograph
Miguel with Gun photograph
Polaroid Series
At the age of eleven, I received a polaroid camera. This gift changed the way I took photographs, because of the quick developing of the image brought nearly instant results. I have returned to these image from that time in my artistic progression to revisit and reaccess them. As a mature artist, I find that I am drawn to the surface changes that has occurred to the images over time. The noise, tape residue, graininess and color changes that have become a part of their presence and history.
digital print
digital print
digital print
digital print
Bus Stop Series
With this series of photographs I was considering the space inside and outside the bus stop shelters. The inside space is protected, while the outside space is vulnerable to the world's onslaughts. These photographs won a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2025.
Green digital color photograph
Walking Away digital color photograph
Pole Outside color digital print
Green digital color photograph