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A geometric ornament consisting of large and small interlaced circles in red, filled with conventionalized greek floral arrangements on light blue.

Detail from Rostrum, D.W. '15

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Chroma Switchback

False-Color Worlds

I was marveling at caustics in shallow water. Wanting to bring out its peculiar texture through digital photo enhancement, I have created a series of phosphorescent dreamscapes. I have expanded the method to other subjects, making cyclopean still lifes out of old heat pipes and algae.

From the beginning I have peculiarly thought of these images as being found objects, corroded metal carrier plates. I have stayed in the macro photography range with the series. I thought the way you take up the ant perspective is an important part of the Chroma Switchback aesthetic.

Machines

A symmetric composition of angled heating pipes in front of a dark tile background, lighted otherworldly in pink and yellow.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Peristyle II

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A tangle of cables and pipes looming over the viewer, split into offset primary color layers as if shaken by force.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Dynamo

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Layers of gears counterpoised in green and pink, rendered in a diffuse, crosshatched texture.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '21

Clockwork Harmony Study

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A raised platform made from iridescent panels of disused electronics, slanted ridges converging at a center apparatus from a dark ceiling.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Rostrum

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Vertical masses of grimy pillars in green and red over a contrasting bottom fourth of more pillars not matching the axis of the top ones.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Pillars

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Nearly symmetrical image of mighty heating pipes carrying an incomprehensible vault of machinery like fluted columns, the lower part disolving into a void of light green tiles.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Peristyle I

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Water

Layers of pebbles, water ripples and froth layered into an inky composition like marbled paper, with red highlights blossoming on the surface.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Liquid Isles

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Homogenous masses of voluminous clouds in red and beige pushing forcefully across space.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Nebula

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Radiant crimson blossoms of ferns or seaweed suspended in a faintly glowing green liquid thick with biomass.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Petals

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Dark smoky surface in green and blue with glowing blotches of pink.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Fumes

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A cloud of pale blue bubbles interspersed with diagonal crags glowing brightly red.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Out of Glowing Clefts

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A thick glistening liquid with rainbow-hued swirls reminiscent of ferns.

Digital Cross-Processing | D.W. '11

Primeval Viscosity

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