Digital photography and digital manipulation can reveal details the human eye is unable to perceive. The depth of this hidden detail is tremendous and always surprising, being composed of more color, more line and more shape, seemingly unrelated to the subject. The dots, lines and shapes in this image originated in an image of a slowly flowing brook.

This is an intriguing image both in terms of color and the tiny shapes inside the whole. Abstract though it is, people try to find recognizable shapes, especially faces, in order to have a point of reference. I see a chimpanzee, Miss Piggy and a rabbit. Good luck.

Porphyra is a coldwater seaweed that grows in cold, shallow seawater. The marine red alga Porphyra has been cultivated extensively in many Asian countries as an edible seaweed used to wrap the rice and fish that compose the Japanese food sushi, and the Korean food gimbap. Here is my interpretation.

Into Fire and Into Ice, digital photography manipulation, 20 x 13in (50.8 x 33.02cm), framed 28 x 20in (71.12 x 33.02cm) , $300.00 A very abstracted face, ghoulish in its deformity, is open-mouthed. Whether to eat or scream is the question. From Dante's Inferno: “Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”