All the prints here are digital, created from scratch on the computer, with no photography involved in the process. And the process is very different from painting or drawing. These landscapes are more archetypal, rather than location-specific, or a reaction to a particular place.

My process in creating this series of work began in a 3D animation program. I built free-form shapes, wireframe models of vaguely landscape -like form, rendered them out as separate elements, and then combined them into what is essentially a mash-up, or digital collage. Then I applied layers, often by the dozens, of special effects plugin alterations and enhancements, to improvise the look and feel of landscape.

This art form does not feature the physicality of paint, which I dearly love, and am drawn to more and more, but it does allow for a unique kind of improvisation, endless refinement and iteration, actually much more than painting could possibly accommodate. For example, if a work became too busy, or overbuilt, I could simply deconstruct it and begin again in a new direction, without the residue you would find remaining in a painting that had been overworked and then re-done.

Many of the qualities of this series of prints come from my reaction to abstract expressionism, and I carry forward certain ways of seeing I developed here into my paintings.