I shot this 360 degree vertical panorama standing on the water line.  This shallow bay in Walden Pond  faces the short path to the site of Thoreau’s cabin. I wanted the oval shape to emphasize the water across from and at the base of the path.

Late in the afternoon, I drove my friend’s borrowed pickup to the beach at Nauset on Cape Cod in time to shoot the 20 + photos at the ocean’s edge before the sun sank below the dunes. The beach was deserted, footprints the only sign of human activity, the ocean immense.  I consolidated the photos into a seamless, horizontal, 360 degree panorama that allowed me to see what was behind me at the same time as what was in front.  I was surprised to see the footprints in the sand around where I stood become the dominant element in the picture. Is this work a photograph? Or a print, ceramic, or painting?  All of the above.

Often after creating a panorama I discover an unintended but  more appropriate image/idea.  Here as if from within a womb of grass the ocean as playground beckons.

Recent work of mine has been about seeing what we are surrounded by but don’t perceive. “Long Nook” began as a formal exercise, a vertical panorama of the division line of land and sea at Cape Cod between the Massachusetts coast and the Atlantic Ocean. From single photos taken just as each wave crested I spliced together an all at once 360-degree vertical revolution of what the camera recorded.

In the assembled vertical panorama of “Long Nook,” I see the water as it rushes up over the land. It is a flood tide that does not recede, an emblem of the rise in ocean levels, an inevitable consequence of global warming.

One of the works is Colony – from Horseneck beach in Westport, Massachusetts.  This piece has actual penetrations of the fired clay surface as a nod to the vessel making tradition and enclosed space created from earth materials of ceramics .