Looking Up - Large P06170-P00147 Original oil painting from the

Original oil painting from the "Playa Santa Series

giving the final image a rich sense of depth and detail

but the backgrounds are altered by montage to create the painterly style

The plasma-cut steel is heated and then bent using wrenches and blacksmith tools

It is made by first creating large sheets of glass with different colors and firing them in the kiln

Looking Up - Large P06170-P00147 Original oil painting from theThis image is part of the artist's ongoing Floraphilia project, which was first published in the prestigious Lenswork Magazine in July of 2010. A second black and white portfolio was published in 2014, and a third portfolio, in color, was published in Seeing in Sixes in 2017. A new Floraphilia portfolio is being reproduced in the May 2018 digital issue of Shadow & Light Magazine. Each photograph is a numbered and signed limited edition archival print