Musicians call it a remix. They reimagine a song, often layering it with different drum tracks or orchestration or harmonies. In digital photography, we can remix images to our hearts' delight because the changes are non-destructive.
I spent the holidays at home recently and decided to see what would happen if I could combine some of my recent street work, both documentary and abstract. And that quickly evolved into reexamining a little older work with gamers and models. And then I opened the digital floodgates and started pulling in textures I’d shot six or seven years ago in the U.S. and Europe. And then all hell broke loose but in a good way.
So, what is this all about? Not sure I can explain this better than my beloved S.F. band The Tubes. This quasi-punk band once released an album and a jokey video called the Completion Backward Principle — “the imagination creates reality” — which still rings untrue today. Until now, I didn’t know what I was missing.
As I write this in late January, I’m developing a series of urban portraits, with other projects underway.
A reimagined urban portrait featuring Eilyn Escalante from the series Re-envisioning.