All photographic art needn’t be serious. This series certainly isn’t. I've started with photos I've taken of the common pepper – green, red, yellow, don’t much matter – and “hybridized” them with photos I’ve taken of unrelated objects in order to see what emerges. The results were fantastical, … and sometimes, … quite beautiful. The objects with which I worked had very different symmetries, or textures, from the smooth skin of a pepper. I often hybridized my peppers with two other objects, a virtual ménage à trois, if you will. The combination often produced unexpected surprises. Many brought a smile to my lips, to yours too, I hope.
Here is a list of some of things I've used to hybridize these peppers:
· Pineapple (macro)
· Stalactite Sculpture
· Water Drop
· Empress Flower Leaf
· Glass Sculpture
· Cattleya (orchid)
· Rose (macro)
· Lady Slipper (orchid)
· Phalaenopsis (orchid)
· Egg Yolks
· Begonia Leaf
· Mold on Grapefruit (macro)
· Chihuly Glass Sculpture
Big Mac
Contagion
Crystal Ball
Curlicue
Disarticulated
Drip Drip
Emergent
Forbidden Fruit
Glassine
Glitteratti
Kisses
Lightning Strike
Puffer Fish
Rip Torn
Sea Nettle
Stalactite
Tartan
The Hulk
Vicera
Worm Hole