Sometimes, life is better with a bit of CGI.  I love working with pen and ink, but there are certain concepts that are better rendered on a glowing computer screen with photomontage.  After all, when I’m looking to express a state of harmony between nature and technology, a medium thousands of years old doesn’t always seem appropriate.

Every day, I take reams of photos of stuff I think looks interesting or beautiful.  Not all these pictures make it to my portfolio or even to a Facebook album.  Yet their form finds new life in photomontage as I think, “This picture could really use something that looks like that thing I saw a few days ago…with different lighting and coloration!”.

Sometimes I use so much post-processing that it’s hard to tell what the original images even were (The Vortex).  Well, at least I think that’s the case.  Other times, like with “Tree Portal” I only add a bit of Hubble magic.  But aside from, on occasion, a few electron microscope components and Hubble Space Telescope photos, all the elements in the photomontage are mine alone.