FOAM SERIES
Early photographic precedents can be found in the work of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and his son Brett. Louis Hock's 1979 Southern California was a 3-screen film installation showing aerial views of incoming waves and spreading foam.
These works incorporate enlargements of snapshots using the color copier and acrylic medium to produce a transparent image. The transparency of the photo and the texture of the white canvas underneath give the image a heightened realism. The white cells of the foam become more pronounced.
Sea foam is made of silica, from plankton, composed of many small bubbles.
The Foam series began in 1999 and presently consists of 43 small works on canvas.
