For me, a photograph is the beginning of making art. Sometimes the photograph itself is all I have to say. Other times, I manipulate a single photograph or combine photographs. Two main venues for me are my studio—a sunlit shelf in my kitchen—and travel. My tools are simple: a film slr, a digital point-n-shoot, and a computer with Photoshop.

September, 2007 Exhibit:
The Shore Re-imagined

These images explore the edge of memory and the edges between sea and sky, land and water, abstraction and reality, painting and photography.

September, 2006 Exhibit:  
 Flights of Fancy

These images are invitations to explore. Landscapes are dream-like, sometimes impressionistic. Fantasies become allegorical. Symbols become ambiguous. Birds, wings, eggs in the images take on different roles—harbingers or omens, ghosts, freedom, rebirth. The images are visions of realities that are highly ambiguous and provocative. Look, wonder, dream, laugh.

September, 2005 Exhibit: 
Nature's Dancers 

I love flowers and I love dance. These images convey with flowers the many varieties, colors, and moods of dance—ballroom, bolero, ballet, modern, slow, fast, jazz. But, of course, dance is mostly about motion, so photographing flowers in motion, twirling, was a natural step. My hope is that these images will draw you in, convey to you a sense of dance, and sometimes leave you wondering. Perhaps you will hear music, too.

Martha Weintraub can be contacted at mjweintraub@yahoo.com

Personal Web site: www.marthaweintraub.com

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