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My art began (and continues) as visual poetry, a natural offshoot of the experimental writing I had been doing since college. For many years I created image/text visuals in black and white, publishing pieces in small press magazines around the world and in three book-length compilations. After the last of these came out in 2003 I started to explore deeper, abstract textures. In 2005 I shifted mainly to color and this evolution accelerated dramatically. I developed new methods which partially incorporated techniques used in the past. My color work is executed digitally but that is just the final step of a unique and somewhat complex process, which involves no graphics program or computer manipulation, except for scanning of some layers and each master page construction.
I call the resulting pieces intermedia prints. The term intermedia comes from Dick Higgins (1938-1998), who asserted that the best modern art occurs between, rather than within, established categories. True creativity is ever-changing, and one of the highest goals of art is to propagate new forms. Higgins was careful to point out that intermedia is not a genre or specific form in itself. His theory stressed the importance of hybridization and cross-breeding, how types of art intermingle, making descriptive distinctions increasingly problematic. In my case this thesis is particularly fitting because each step of my process involves a different medium of focus. Certainly intermedia is a more accurate label for my color work than recognized types it borrows from, including digital, mixed media, painting, and collage.