Sleeping Beauty Series

1997 to 2011

This series, which started from a single monochromatic color negative self-portrait of planter sconce in 1997, in San Diego, California, while I was working on creating a one-on-of-a-kind handcrafted photo book.

It was Sleeping Beauty that won the Best of Show Award for Digital Photography at the Del Mar Fair in 1997. Sleeping Beauty was chosen by San Diego Designers to be featured as a holiday card to raise money for the Holistic Aids Response Organization.

The Sleeping Beauty series, which contains expanded explorations of the source self-portrait, was finally finished in 2011 in Middletown, Connecticut, as I was recovering after my cancer surgery. It was during this time of recovery that I fully committed to the development of mastering the art of making a photo look like a painted image.