These portraits are what I have been working on for the last year. They use multiple images from my archives of 50 years. Some of the portraits have up to 10 layers of backgrounds, architectural details, textures, landscapes, tools, words, sketches, and on and on. I’m never sure where I am going. It’s sort of serendipitous like throwing spagetti on the wall to see if it is done. The multiple imagery that you see is a throwback to a method I used when I first started in New York City in the 70s. At that time I was creating “in camera multiple exposures” by exposing 35mm film with one subject and then rewinding the film into the canister and then loading the film again and then exposing it again with a different subject. What is interesting for me is to be using an “additive” method of art. Photography is a “subtractive” method, where in one subtracts imagery from the world on to a piece of film or sensor. This additive process however, brings me into line with painters, illustrators, watercolorists, etc. They are adding onto canvas or paper, lines and colors that only exist in their subliminal minds. It uses a different part of their brains. At least this is what I am conjuring at the moment.