In the glass facades of corporate office buildings, I photographed the reflections of other such buildings, which festoon Houston, TX. 

To produce these images, I converted the originally color photographs into black-and-white, then boosted contrast. From these, I created line pictures (with what is called *edge* in my software, using a "Roberts" transformation), which I then converted into negatives, whose contrast I adjusted to bring out the building's structure. The resulting lines, I then tinted to taste, often choosing zany colors to contrast with the humorlessness of these edifices.

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The former Enron building provided the mirror here.

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The Enron building, I again used as a mirror. 

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Here's an unusually clear demonstration of the technique. The lines of the mirroring building form a crystalline lattice, which the reflection of the other building then plays off of, disturbing the lattice, usually with lines that are curved and that I have colored differently.

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tumbledown town

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By zooming in on one pane of glass, I dispensed with the lattice in the mirroring building and gained another view of one mirrored.  

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pushing on into purer imagination,...

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The mirrored building has become unrecognizable as a building, it approaches pure pattern -- without, I sure hope, becoming *merely* abstract, bloodless, flat. An instrument dependent on incoming light can yield an image insistently suggestive.  

The large sheets of glass are uneven in ways that distort consistently any lines reflected in them. 

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The window frames make for the lattice. The large sheets of glass, each distorted differently, vary the patterns within the frames. This portfolio, like some others, follows a strategy of matrix and variations.  

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Although this pattern seems pure, disconnected from visual experience, I find it hard to resist seeing it as something that I could see, indeed have often seen: a waterfall. What force pushes me toward this particular?  Why bring what's imaginative down to earth? Why resist it, though? After all, seeing it as a waterfall is a leap of metaphor, and such jumps are usually enjoyable.