I am a native Oregonian living in Portland. I have taken pictures all my life but with a greater passion and seriousness in the last several years, patrolling the city for the rich possibilities it offers for formal abstraction. My greatest artistic inspirations have been William Eggleston and Rene Magritte.
My images are most successful when they not only show beauty but also elicit feelings of wonderment, mystery, and whimsy. My goal is to capture a non-photogenic, frequently ignored object and give it the spotlight. It may be an image in a muddy puddle, a broken window, or a traffic signal.
My process entails invention as well as discovery; images are found but also carefully framed and rigorously composed, producing a kind of paradox of serendipity and control. Though technically straightforward and matter-of-fact, my pictures rely on a sometimes disorienting tension between photographic representation and pure geometric abstraction.
Thank you for your visit. – Jodi
My images are most successful when they not only show beauty but also elicit feelings of wonderment, mystery, and whimsy. My goal is to capture a non-photogenic, frequently ignored object and give it the spotlight. It may be an image in a muddy puddle, a broken window, or a traffic signal.
My process entails invention as well as discovery; images are found but also carefully framed and rigorously composed, producing a kind of paradox of serendipity and control. Though technically straightforward and matter-of-fact, my pictures rely on a sometimes disorienting tension between photographic representation and pure geometric abstraction.
Thank you for your visit. – Jodi