Nine years later, photographed through a winshield on the New Jersey Turnpike passing Elizabeth, New Jersey….As I downloaded my image files onto my hard-drive I was excited by the structure of this capture i.e. the positive and negative space and the bold vertical shape. It held promise to what I envisioned to to be. The original photo was taken in 2008 and it took a few years of periodic work to create my vision…and then it sat in its own folder because it was a singleton, unlike anything I had previously created. When Ward Hooper, whom I hadn’t yet met, posted his painting Long Island City on Facebook I responded with Night Lights and thus began a social-media conversation that grew into a collaboration that developed into The Brush/Lens Project…where trickles of my creative process exploded…and now it is growing into a book targeted to be published in 2019.
