In the past, my photography has involved integrating primal or primitive images with retrieved internalized instincts and images. Polaroid emulsion manipulation allows me to create an imaginary world outside the bounds of normal photography. I feel my work is a kind of personal archeology with the viewer being forced to puzzle over and identify with the images as though discovering a lost civilization. Most recently, I have been photographing references to modern civilization and again manipulating the photo emulsion. These new primitive simulations provide an interesting curiosity: the juxtaposition of a contemporary image in a archeological context. Each image seems to convey a sense of what future civilizations may find from us.

The process starts with manipulating the 3"x3" Polaroid image soon after it comes from the SX-70 camera. After altering the image on the face of the print, I then cut it open to reveal the inside of the Polaroid print. A partially distorted latent photo image is revealed in the pastel-like photo emulsion. I then hand color the photo emulsion in most of the prints. The final product is a tactile 3"x3" representation of the original photograph embedded in the emulsion. In other words, the emulsion from inside the Polaroid print is exhibited. The small original print is then photographed with a large format camera. The large format negative allows for high definition quality C-Prints of up to 48"x48" in size. Sizes 8"x10" - 48"x48".

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