These jumbo size Polaroids (52 x 44) feature a recurring cast of characters and animals moving through familiar neighborhood locations, caught in dreamlike, gravity-defying moments—falling, rising, or floating on their way to somewhere else.  Orientation to gravity is questionable.

 

 I turned the shortcomings of the basic Polaroid print into aesthetic positives.  By re-photographing and enlarging the originals, the quiet intimacy of the pocket size Polaroid expands into something loud and brash.  This radical scale deviation changes everything.  Printed on a polyester weave, vinyl substrate, the works are mounted inches off the wall, unframed, like hanging textiles.  They move and bend.  They are not only images, but objects occupying space. 

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The series consists of more than 28 prints.  Eleven are shared here as an entry point.  

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 So far in 2026 my collage photography is featured in four exhibitions - Untitled 20 , at Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis; 

Light on Cut Paper, at New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans;  Making Strange, at Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis;

and  A Celebration of Contemporary Photography, at PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT.

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