A powerful example of the artist's ability with photographic manipulations with patterns, Nymph Echo reveals a nude figure seemingly perched along a wrought iron balcony that is transformed through an array of references taken from the natural world. Her identity remained hidden yet her female features are accentuated, forcing the viewer to question which elements of nature are the most compelling.

2x digital images overlayed. Color enhancement. 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 »