Title: Medusa

Description: Color Negative Photography, Chromogenic PrintsSummary:  So, in early 2006, a beloved 250 year old house burned to the ground. Since then, fraught with concerns resultant from the fire, I have had to turn down numerous offers for exhibition and residency, as dealing with the fire's ramifications. This  been a full-time job, to the exclusion of my own work and professional development. Owned by a family, the duty fell to me.However, I already sense a change in me, an emergence of a peace with mysurroundings and a consequent gratefulness--a gratitude that impels me, atonce, to look askance at the complications of personal relationships whilelooking at that same world in a more direct, upright fashion.The pictures themselves are a reflection of the rural landscape of anUpstate New York Hamlet called Medusa. And, situated in the Village ofRensselaerville, in addition to being to birthplace of the great BillGedney, Medusa is one of the last working farm communities in the area.The specialty crop is its tender, award-winning garlic. It is an utterlyperfect place, draped across a rich, golden valley of the Catskills. Furthermore, this project included with this summary is a color essay in rural life steeped in landscape, heavily influenced by the poetry of William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost.Process:These pictures are printed from hand-processed negatives on chromogenic paper . And they are  made mostly in the early morning and late afternoon, satisfying my current  infatuation with blousy, velvety light.