I hold both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and have worked in the tech industry for more 20 years. I am also an Air Force veteran and served as a communications officer in two highly technological wars in Turkey and Africa. My academic, military, and work background sparked my interest in the ways the world communicated before the digital age. This inspired me to study traditional printmaking including etching, lithography, wood engraving, linocut, monotype, and sun-printing. I am fascinated by the ways that our modern technologies have evolved from some of these legacy, analog technologies. For example, many digital concepts descend from ideas expressed in the 1700s with stone lithography, such as binary memory, image libraries, duplication, and storage. The metal etching process stems from the middle ages and is the basis of computer chip fabrication today.
My body of work is both figurative and illustrative and focuses on several subjects and topics, including animals, botanicals, and technology. My latest work is cyanolumens, which combines two alternative photographic sun printing processes, cyanotype and lumen.