For the last 30 plus years, I have documented the nation’s capitol waterways. For the last 23 years, my environmental fine art photography documenting the Anacostia River, and its environment has been in the forefront of emphasizing the plight of the environment with an innovative outlook for environmentalists, art professionals, policy makers, the media and the general public. Like my unique painterly abstract expressionism images, the environmental photographs are symbolic revelations and evocations of what the future will be and how we see it is now. Positive imagery can be a means of expression for beauty and spiritual transformation about a serious topic—pollution! My goal is that my artistic advocacy will influence and promote positive environmental and social changes about protecting the Anacostia River and its environment.
Each separate body of waters is presented as a series of new works with a distinct perspective of my signature painterly approach–abstract expressionism. These compelling images explore and convey, in an impressionistic manner, the diverse atmosphere, ambiance, mood, tone and character of the Anacostia River and the surrounding areas.
In this archival series of new works titled “Anacostia River Photography,” I showcase the diversity of the environment in different places and communities. In my abstract images of the water, I emphasize the reflection of the interactions of light and movement on the surface of waterways. In my observation of what resides under the broad walks or the piers or bridges and tour boats, I capture a mystical world of glimmering and shimmering waves, glistening silhouettes, mirrored surfaces, shadowy and inky figures with luminescent colors.