Art and Photography
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Selected for “Your Dream is You 2022” Exhibition
I just found out today that I was selected for the 2022 “Your Dream is You” exhibition. This is the second year of the exhibition and they intend to make it an annual one. Last year it was to be held in Istanbul, but Covid forced the exhibition online and they’ve decided to keep the…
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On the Brink of Love
This piece, “within reach,” began with me looking back at the “past lives” series I had created not too long before. I was looking at the characters in the series and decided I would explore aspects of the same story even if it was with different characters. As usual, when I started I didn’t have…
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Hope in Dark Times
I created “the lost bouquet” in August. A friend, after seeing it, asked me if I was okay. Several works before had appeared cheerier. I told her I was doing fine. “the lost bouquet” isn’t about grief or loss. It’s about hope in that darkness. It’s about the growth that happens when we can’t see…
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New Life Exhibition in Cagliari, Italy!
I felt honored to have “the next phase: trust” exhibited in “The New Life Exhibition” in September at the Fondazione per l’arte Bartoli Felter, in Cagliari (Sardinia), Italy! Recently I’ve been using butterflies in lots of my images. I see them as a representation of new life, of starting again after the ravages of Covid…
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emergence: the process
Every now and then I like to give a little look “behind the scenes” of my creative process. I did this before with “we build with what we can: the process” and I wanted to do a new one with a popular recent piece, “emergence.” The video doesn’t give every step in the process of…
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MDAC 2021 Mobile Photography/Art Winner
One of the most important conferences and exhibitions for mobile photography and art is the Mobile Digital Arts and Creativity Summit in Palo Alto, CA each year. This year the Summit was both physical and virtual (last year, when I won an “Honorable Mention,” it was only virtual due to Covid-19). I was so incredibly…
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Honorable Mention in Mobile Photography Awards!
The MPA (Mobile Photography Awards) is one of the most prestigious and important events for the mobile photography and art community. I used to enjoy perusing the winning entries of the MPAs every year, never dreaming that one day I would be a participant, much less chosen for any type of award. This past year…
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