A still from 'b'of'trombones
Patience and immersion to study and observe nature with the various tools of documentation— still-photography, video, audio, pencil, paper, paints, canvas—from micro to macro, everything as everything, connected and related, offers us perspectives which pollinate our being with refreshing insight to creative and spiritual ideas and truths which need further expansion and connection. Working in nature truly opens us up to Seeing and Looking for these magical links of creation and evolution. When did you come across Andre Gide’s novel The Counterfeitors? Roughly 12 years ago. It was in the office where the Xerox machine was that enabled “The ‘b’ of ‘trombones’” to take place, and the librarian there—a good friend and scholar in his own right— highly suggested I read it and gave me his old copy. The pacing, language and maturity of Gide’s style was very appealing to me, and then when I came
across the word “trombones”, which is the instrument I play professionally, I was already engaged in the photocopying experiments, so then that was that. Since then I’ve also found Gide’s Journals 18891949 to be very enjoyable and deep reading of a unique kind. We have been impressed by the way you use Xerox toner to paper interpenetrated ad infinitum as a powerful tool: your work present stunning painterly qualities. How did you develop your "magnification tech-nique"? Thank you… I discovered this process and “technique” working in an office part-time with a large Xerox machine and a lot of spare time on my hands. First I began experiments enlarging photographs on to different types of paper, or photocopying my face and hands at different distances and sizes, but then I discove-