PORTFOLIOS

Scientific Inquiries was envisioned from the beginning as more than a portfolio of photographs. This Exhibition Catalog presents the work as it was intended — a synergistic interplay between words and images that explores the idea that science, mysticism, theology, cartography, cosmology and photography are intertwined, and all arise from the fundamental human need to ask: “Who are we, and what is our place in the universe?” Each hand-embossed photomontage in this series melds my own photographs with historical artifacts: ancient manuscripts, maps, star charts, ship’s logs, NASA photographs, and 19th century glass plates — and is presented with gratitude to Democritus, Ptolemy, Galileo, Captain Cook, Edwin Hubble, and a thousand generations upon whose shoulders we stand.

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