The Surface and Beneath Canvas Print

In the Up Against the Wall Series. a graffitied chess board at Bathurst Street's parkette is revealed behind the cement wall. What does scrapping the surface reveal? 'Urban extractions'

I am a gardener and photographer living in Grimsby in the heart of the Niagara Peninsula, amongst vineyards and orchards, and of course, the great Niagara Escarpment which makes Niagara Falls. We have a rich visual world. I look to bring out beauty in the ordinary. I am attracted to flowers and gardens, but also to peeling paint and rust where abstracts can be created. I have enjoyed using plug-ins and filters to enhance and transform my work. I especially appreciate Flaming Pear's Flexify. In our rapidly changing art world, I am not planning to migrate to AI - either for image generation and especially not for image descriptions. Current AI descriptions to me are mundane and detailed itemizations of image contents. They have made...