The main piece was a series of flags loosely based on the Stations of the Cross, instead of picturing Jesus, however, I used images of my friends and myself as the subjects of the Passion.
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A series of rubber stamps were produced that used the Cabaret bartenders posed as saints, the stamp prints were given away for free to anyone who asked (OK, some didn't ask.)
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The last piece was a series of Leather Impression Paddles with portraits of Fringe Festival Folks which were intended to leave an portrait impression on the skin.
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Statement about recent Portraiture

I recently surpassed 10,000 pictures on my digital camera. A fair number of these images are the stupid candid shots taken from parties, taken in an effort to memorialize the time, event or energy from these moments. Most of these pictures are total throwaways, as they really don’t capture the mood at all (or in the case of my particular camera, there is too much of a delay). Some of these pictures are “keepers,” meaning that they actually do convey the energy or mood fairly successfully.
I have been working on portraits for the past seven years. Up until last year, the portraits were mainly people in the news or people I didn’t know, created with the context of the materials in mind to investigate a point of view or think about concepts I had never previously addressed. I decided to switch to portraits of people I know in order to examine personal relationships and try to explore universal concepts using images of my friends.