Portrait Collage
The Cypress Elegy, 30” x 40”. Portrait collage combining my photography of a Louisiana swamp with historic imagery from the 19th century. In this piece, a bearded man sits atop a freshly cut cypress tree playing an elegy for the felled tree on his banjo. Behind him he is accompanied by a guitar player sitting in a canoe and a fiddle player standing in the backwaters. Overhead flies an ivory billed woodpecker while a pair of curious catfish circle the stump below.