Welcome to my website where I’m sharing my photography produced over the past dozen years. Much has changed during this time span, but my passion for making photographs continues to impel me forward.
In Lieu of flowers
The photographs in this series, In Lieu of Flowers, were created in memory of my thirty-seven-year-old son Jackson R. Turner, who drowned in Tulum, Mexico in July 2020. Because of covid there was no funeral, only his shipped cremains. It is also for my mother, my grandmothers, teachers and friends whose funerals I could not attend… as well as for all those who’ve experienced a similar loss. These are the flowers I did not send.
Car parts:
Metalic Transports
Cars display their brilliant or flat colors, reflective surfaces and a myriad of shapes and textures for our contemplation -– dusty, dirty, dented, gleaming, elegant, embellished with whimsical personal items. Observing them closely, we discover fleeting realities and magical micro-universes on their metallic canvases. Finding them along the street, in ugly parking lots, shopping centers and strip malls is for me a redemptive act that reveals beauty in the banal and re-examines our relationship to the automobile and its environs.
Wet
My “Wet” water reflections hearken back to my childhood on the Gulf coast of Florida in Sarasota where I spent much of my time in a swimming pool, at the beach or out on boats — sailing, power boating and water skiing. Afternoon thunderstorms soaked us daily all summer, leaving puddles everywhere. The play of light on water and the resulting fluid abstractions, often combined with reflections of the built environment, evoke for me a time of pure play and relaxation.
My feelings about this work have changed, however, since my son’s drowning. The menacing potential of even a swimming pool is much more vivid to me. A strong swimmer, I now have a level of anxiety that never troubled me before. Water, so essential to life, is also a great destructive force as we see with the increasing level of flooding that’s come with global warming.