painted light

I began photographing at night in the late ’70’s, as an extension of my motion and time exposure work. In the mid 80’s, I developed a style of color light painting that combined a daylight and a night exposure on the same film. This technique, though time-consuming and unruly, provided me with the element of surprise and discovery I have always sought in my work. The intense colors were meant not as neon or glitz, but as an equivalent to the furnace glow of a desert sunset or the deep blue of dusk. They are colors you find only in the dry air of the desert, or in the ephemeral bloom of desert wildflowers.