Alchemist Artist · Elemental landscapes
The Volcano Project
There is something unsettling about beauty that carries the suggestion of destruction. The Volcano Project explores that tension through abstract mixed media artwork, using resin, mica and glow to evoke the intensity of an eruption.
I am drawn to volcanic imagery because it holds movement, force and uncertainty within the same landscape. In this series, I translate that energy into surfaces you can study slowly, finding your own path through the forms.
Working with the feeling of an eruption
These pieces approach volcanoes through abstraction. Rather than documenting a particular event, I use the subject as a starting point for exploring the impressions of heat, pressure and movement.
Resin and mica give me ways to work with texture and reflected light. Their interaction helps create a surface that rewards attention, offering different details as your viewpoint changes.
Pele’s Fury
Pele’s Fury brings the series into three lighting conditions: ordinary light, blacklight and darkness. Each photograph offers a different view of the same artwork, allowing you to follow the changes without losing its place in the collection.
Volcano 1.2017
Volcano 1.2017 offers another encounter with the project’s volcanic imagery. Its ordinary light and glow photographs let you explore how the same composition takes on a different presence when the surrounding light changes.
Volcano 5.2018
Volcano 5.2018 continues the series’ exploration of volcanic form. Seen alongside the other pieces, it invites you to compare how one subject can lead to different abstract interpretations.
Returning to the work after dark
Glow gives parts of this collection a second way to be seen. As the lighting changes, your attention can shift toward details that held a different place in the daylight view. I enjoy that invitation to return to an artwork and discover it again.
The Volcano Project holds my fascination with nature’s intensity in a form that allows for close looking. Spend time with the surfaces, compare the lighting and let the abstract landscapes suggest their own stories.