The Collaboration began in late 1991, as sort of an experiment. I was getting great results from the combining of graphics and holograhics. It was all about visual stimulus, one of the key ingredients of advertising.I would look through magazines at the product ads and think about a different approach, because so many ads just didn't hold the reader to the page, that some one had spent a small fortune for. I had no idea of how holographics might be used, but with photographer Brett Colvin in the studio next door, it was an intriguing proposition to him. He set up some hot lights and the 4 by 5 inch bellows camera and told me to see what I could get and then come and get him. It didn't take long, as rich, vibrant colors and really wild forms started to emerge. The more I worked with the materials and lighting, the more I experimented on how to channel them. I tried inserting real objects into the shots, and it worked.

Not long after, I saw non-commercial images in my head that I thought could be created. Images that I'd like framed and on my wall. I started down the path of creating a form of abstract art that was sort of bass ackwards, in that the "abstract" interpretation was from the viewer, not the art. It was directly due to Brett's skills and sensitivities with a camera that the results turned out as well as they did. So every time I had enough spare money to shoot a few images, we did, and I'd try some new approaches. I never thought about showing, or selling, the work until years later. We still work the same way today. I try to create color in the most elegant state I can, with the most pleasing forms, I don't edit and if it didn't happen through the lens, it gets pitched. Many attempted shots just don't quite get there. Prints are made of the ones that did.

• The 13th "ArtStravaganza" National Juried Exhibition at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee

• The Millennium Arts Center's 3rd Inaugural Exhibition in Washington. DC
• The SOHO International Arts Competition Exhibition at the Agora Gallery in New York City, NY
• The 21st Faber Birren Color Competition Exhibition in Stamford, CT.

• Photo Op '02 National Juried Pure Photography Exhibition held in Salt Lake City during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, and then re-shown at the Millennium Arts Center in Washington DC. To download the article - click here

• The Spectra: Illusions of Light Exhibition at Project CREO, part of the St. Petersburg, FL. Arts Center as an invited artist.