To be continued...

“Film Noir” is a film-making term for detective movies. You know the ones in black in white, with hard shadows coming in through window blinds casting dark lines into smoke-filled offices. The protagonists aren’t all good and no one can be trusted. The movies about murder, small time criminals, mystery and betrayal with actors like Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Robert Mitchum and Rita Hayworth.

What better way to render my characters in the midst of some mystery than in the permanence of ink. Like actors pulled from the silver screen, my characters find themselves in these subtle dreamlike scenarios.

I’m pulling back the veil on two worlds touching – barely overlapping. Each scene is like looking through the lens of an old camera or discovering a strange forgotten photograph. The ink-washed renderings, capturing a moment in time when the realm of the unknown ever-so-slightly intersects the tangible.