Via Veneto

This is a picture I took from a rooftop restaurant in Rome. I was on the edge of the Via Veneto in the very heart of Rome, with the 17th Century Triton fountain sparkling directly below.

This photograph displays the present, while reflecting on art history. I try and
Break down some of the boundaries between painting and photography. My computer-manipulated photographs are similar to a painting in that they are created over time.

The camera photographs an instantaneous fraction of a second. In a painting I move my hand and brush over the canvas in a temporal manner that reflects the movement of my eyes. My photographic process has become more like the process of painting. I use computer technology to piece together a more temporal photograph by continually surveying and manipulating small details.

Recursion One

Oil and beeswax on canvas

This is an introduction to my work for viewers to see on my new blog. I have included the full painting and a closeup.

I selected Recursion because it shows that painting and computer ideas can have intrinsic parallel universes.

WIKIPEDIA defines Recursion as follows:

Recursion (computer science) is a way of thinking about and solving problems. It is, in fact, recursion one of the central ideas of computer science. [1] Solving a problem using recursion means the solution depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem. [2]
"The power of recursion evidently lies in the possibility of defining an infinite set of objects by a finite statement. In the same manner, an infinite number of computations can be described by a finite recursive program, even if this program contains no explicit repetitions." [3]

This painting is about defining one solution form an infinite number of smaller instances.