Experimental photography – I am in a holding pattern at the moment. It’s like having something on the tip of your tongue, something that is just outside your memory, a word you have problems remembering. I am having a creative slump but at the same time I can almost envision the next paintings and the new writing.

I have been looking at older paintings and there is a sense of detail that I think I have relaxed a bit on in recent paintings. I am excited about creating water with the feeling that you can touch the bottom.

There are many paintings that are floating around the studio, each in different stages of completion-I sit in front of them and nothing. You just can’t force it when there is nothing there, no images, no feelings and yet the impetus is strong.

So today on a snowy day in February I photographed. I tried to see things that weren’t obvious.

I experimented with the winter Jasmine in the front yard in a way that I could captured its essence, I experimented with several Fstops for varying depth of field. So I can’t say I’m completely satisfied but the inspiration and the creativity is getting closer, it’s just a matter of time until I start painting and writing furiously.

I even messed with some old oranges, I liked the rich colors of the oranges with the cold winter background. The fact that they didn’t quite fit in the winter landscape is what I thought was interesting.

Next, I shot inside and adjusted the images until they were almost artwork instead of photos. From the teens addiction to the cell phone to the study of a red couch in the snow, I was just trying to be open to anything that presented itself.

I am excited about shooting much more in the near future and hope to have many photographs of our upcoming trip. Stay tuned.