What breath of fresh air

              Molecular Mutations 

                                                   This is Not a Christmas Card

                                     Chernoble Blues  

                                                         Flowering Destruction: Won the Gold Award at the International Art Competition: Earth's Everybody's Home. Vilnius Lithuania 1998.

                  Someone is melting the earth

 This body of work is made from Kodacrome slides that were burnt after painting them with toxic household ingredients like EasyOff, Rubber Glue, Fingernail Polish, Magic Markers, Bleach, Shoe Polish  and more.

 In some cases the image was burnt off the slide, and then after freezing, the image was burnt back onto the slide.

This project started as a result of a catastrophic fire that burnt down my family home in Maine. Going through the rubble I found some nearly destroyed slides that had somehow, through the fire and a year of the elements still contained haunting images (like the one of the barn just above). 

These photographs were made between 1975 to 1988 . Then I started altering them with chemicals and fire from 1984 to 1990.  The message in this work is Be Here Now.

      The sky is falling 

MELTDOWN was the original name to this portfolio. It was images of the everyday  interrupted by something unpredictable and disturbing. Just when you least expect it... every thing starts to meltdown. The technique was simply burning a specific part of the Slide with fire.

                      House of Radon Gas

Scorched Memories 

                                                           Maple Tree Infections 

Toxic Beaches with Stuff 

                                                            Tour Effiel

Salem's Lot

           Sulfur Dioxide clouds and crumbling ozone layer

             around scorched trees.

The sky is falling  

 Last Dance

                                                 Red skies at night 

 Red Square Moscow

                       Big Ben's Time 

                                                       Blowing the Horn on the Environment.

                                                        David's Last Stand 

 North Pole 2012

                                                                      Towering Infernos 

                                                                              Running Girl with Beach Ball 

This image here is an example of my Double Burn technique. I paint the Kodacrome slide with various toxic substances , then burn the entire image off on the emulsion side of the slide, without burning through or shrinking / warping the slide. Almost no image remains and the slide is now almost clear and transparent. Then the slide is frozen. Later I reapply fire to the emulsion side of the slide until the image magically reappears on the Kodacrome. The process is done by hand, and is oh so tricky not to over do any step of it, which might cause the slide to POP with a hole or melt and shrink in on itself. Thus in my case the  Phoenix rises again from the fire to make this haunting environmental image .

                                                                             This doesn't look like Kansas

                                                                                                              It was something in the Beef.

Staff Infected Beach

                                                     Chemical Warfare 

                                  Hopi Prophesy 

                              Who killed the Whales ?

 Run, don't walk

                                                                                              Acid Rain

         World Trade Centers 

                                                                           Grandmother caught smoking

                                                                                         Global Banking Collapse 

                 Sun Life Building