Layered texture and colors make Recumbent Nymph a striking frame that harkens back to the provocative imagery of the past. The folds of a fan unfurl to frame the reclining nude and parallel her spread legs, while curls of red wind their way through the composition like wisps of smoke.

2x digital mages, 1x B&W & 1X color overlayed. Some color manipulation. About the Artist I don't care for the certainty of what's in front of my lens, but the creativity, the fantasy, the invention, that can gush from a thought before or thereafter. Between the certain and uncertain, there's a possible space, like in dreams and fables. My creativity stems from my lust for finding and exploring sympathies between the human body, the landscape and its texture. Oscillating between transparency and opacity, I create rich photographic art conveying the surreal, the in-between, the ambiguity of human form, the lusciousness of nature and the allegoric windows in urban surrounds. New visual and emotional images surface, often painterly and somewhat surreal, affecting the perceptions of natural reality. I call this "synthetic realism". more »