Until my early twenties, I lived in southwestern Utah. I am still in the process of deconstructing my childhood. My art is part of that process. Maybe I am old enough now to begin to understand the dialectics of life: we had poverty and food stamps, and a small wood-burning stove to heat my childhood home, and I had a ditch in the front yard, a dog who littered yearly, freshly-baked homemade bread and foothills to wander. I have been taking photographs for nearly forty years. For most of that time my work centered on classical, single-image monochromatic photography of nudes, landscapes and abstractions. Within the last four years I have been using collage/montage/mosaic techniques to create larger pieces and polyptychs with both thematic and subject matters that are meditations on politics, identity, religion and the state of being in America today. The work I am doing now is far more time and labor intensive than single-image photography, especially when creating mosaic polypt