The images on my page are not made with Photoshop or any other kind of photo altering software. I start a slideshow of all the photos on my MacBook Pro to be displayed randomly on the setting 'dissolve'. As one picture fades out, another fades in; during that moment, a little less than a second, I take a picture of the screen with my camera, a Canon Powershot SX110 IS. The screen is either my laptop or a television. The best way to describe the resulting image would be a 'merge'; two images momentarily become one image. Sometimes I will face the laptop toward the television screen and capture both the laptop image and the reflection of the television image on the laptop screen, a double merge with one image out of focus. Often there is a 'panelling' effect, as different sized photos merge together. Sometimes I will crop an image to not show this obvious layering, other times I will either keep the whole image or crop to show the layering at the edges. Any images I keep are stored on my MacBook and eligible for future merges, resulting in some very layered photos. Since they are photographs of screens, they all have varying 'textures'. Some of the images turn out very dreamlike, others very busy, and others cross the line into abstraction. The pictures themselves are shots of a wide south and westerly view I had for many years in San Francisco's Sunset district, also flowers and plants in my garden as well as Golden Gate Park, San Francisco itself, other hiking pictures, landscapes, some European cities. Much more.

An exercise in the fascinating beauty of randomness.