'Intimate Archaeology'

These images are made using a scanner. A camera-less process which produces the digital equivalent of a photogram. The detail acheived is quite exquisite.

"The ghostly images have a multitude of referents and manage to hover between 'intimations of elegance' and downright quirkiness.

Ultimately perhaps the dialogue they prompt has to do with perfection and imperfection, residing somewhere between the smoothness and the wrinkles, and in the tension of close-knit and loosening threads..."

from an essay by Jim Casper, www.lensculture.com (full text under Essays)