Printmaking (lithography and serigraphy) was my medium of choice before I focused on photography.  I now see in my early works compositions remarkably similar to current landscapes.  These photographs, from a series on graffiti and buffing beneath a freeway bridge, also foreshadow my landscape photographs.  Gravity, the horizontal, is emphasized, along with the irregularities of wind, water, and the tectonic, both subterranean and subconscious.  The buffed (or covered over) images I interpret as self-portraits.

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The lower portion of the image is a concrete wall, interrupted by columns that support the freeway overhead; the wall is painted over with layers of graffiti and buffing.  The upper portion is the retaining wall several yards behind the wall, where the bridge begins its span.  The retaining wall, deliberately out of focus in these photographs, also has layers of graffiti and buffing.  These images are part of a larger series.