Chemical Abstractions, another new and ongoing body of work, are both very real and very abstract. The subject matter, as with many abstract images, is probably not readily apparent. These happen to be photographs of various chemical crystals with birefringent properties. They were photographed in cross-polarized light through a compound microscope.

One of the first things you will no doubt notice about them is the bright colors in many of them. This is pretty much the way they look when looking through the microscope. The colors result from projecting polarized light through birefringent crystals, then cross-polarizing the light for your eyes through the eyepieces or for the camera.

Every slide is different, many do not contain anything of visual interest, but those that are interesting can be very interesting. The compositions were chosen because they either reminded me of something to anthropomorphize or had an element such as line, texture, shape, color, or something else that made them (to me) interesting enough to photograph.