Infusions Series
"Infusions" examines the visual dynamics of interpenetrating liquids and how they affect form, color and movement. In these photographic images, examples of Transient Art, a diversity of forms enter and exit each other in an orgy of movement and—sometimes—color. Radically altered forms result from the encounters. The infusion of colored liquid into clear or previously-colored liquid does not merely add color. The materials and forms collide and embrace unpredictably, mindlessly, mercilessly, sometimes devouring, digesting, dominating, possessing, or annihilating; other times slowly, easily, and gently blending in a dance that, similarly unpredictable, looks mutual and reciprocal. So what? The changing visual dynamics are often breathtaking in their beauty, and that is enough to satisfy me. Yet the infusions also reflect larger concerns, whether intended or not. Our bodies and world demand that we form and relinquish our boundaries over and over again. We try to negotiate who does and doesn’t “rub up against”, enter, or influence the edges that delineate our boundaries and the center that seems to define us. The process both challenges and changes us, but how much? Does it change our essential nature? Does it make us more, or less, than we were? The series also illuminates the intimate relationship between destruction and creativity.   
 
g, or annihilating; other times slowly, easily, and gently blending in a dance that, similarly unpredictable, looks mutual and reciprocal. So what? The changing visual dynamics are often breathtaking in their beauty, and that is enough to satisfy me. Yet the infusions also reflect larger concerns, whether intended or not. Our bodies and world demand that we form and relinquish our boundaries over and over again. We try to negotiate who does and doesn’t “rub up against”, enter, or influence the edges that delineate our boundaries and the center that seems to define us. The process both challenges and changes us, but how much? Does it change our essential nature? Does it make us more, or less, than we were? The series also illuminates the intimate relationship between destruction and creativity.