I realized the potential of merging my interests in science and art when I found a packet of x-rays which had been taken fifty years ago when my mother underwent a medical evaluation.  Over the years the surface of the x-rays had buckled, degraded and deformed, creating a raised flowing and organic pattern of lines. Intrigued, I began photographing them.  A familiar object was suddenly transformed.  The black surface of the x- ray became a luminous space, filled with a light both penetrating and reflective, changing from moment to moment.  A shadowy human presence now animated the space.  Emerging or dissolving, mysterious and ambiguous until that moment of recognition. 

What if we could look at bones and not be influenced by associations of fear, vulnerability and even disgust?  What if we could see them purely aesthetically?  Here is a ripple of patterns, or a surprising series of shapes.  How harmonious they are where they interlock.  So solid, and yet, so transparent.  The grace of a line.  Can we be drawn into the ethereal beauty?  Can we wonder about a vague sense of unease?  

For me, this series is about space and our place within it.  It is about the tension between the fleeting life of the ephemeral and the enduring strength of the inanimate.  Each of us is made of flesh and bone, a commonality we all share.