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This project titled after Plato, “Parable of the Cave” is a visual chronicle of my spiritual birth. I began to work in front of the camera in 1979 with a desire to discover “truth”. Working in darkenss with the camera lens locked open on the roof of 31 Union Square West in New York City, I painted with flashes of light on 35mm slide film. I studied the principles of various lighting effects, cataloging results and coined the phrase flash ~ painting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I left New York in 1982 on a journey across the US cultivating a body of images, researching the effects of light in darkness.