The definition of a photographer is a light writer. Personally, I consider myself a "luxaholic" a term I came up with myself to explain a person who can't ignore amazing lighting conditions and passionately seeks it out, and even creates it when necessary. (I have a very personal relationship with all of my flash units.) That's me. I am transfixed by how light moves and has the power to, photographically at least, change everything.
The glass head is a wedding present from 1998, it was gifted by my nephews, who were young at the time and thought it was cool. About 10 years ago I thought it would be cool to use it as a filter for the real world. It makes the loveliest squiggly effects in the middle if you get the angle right. It turned into an on-and-off photo series called Head Games where I figure out what should "Go In My Head".
With irregular reflective surface shapes, and also being translucent, meaning anything you don't want to show you better hide before you click the button, the head has led to some interesting challenges through the years. Since I just knocked these things together on the sunny Light Lab table tonight this is new and experimental; straight out of camera, natural light, with only an edit for sizing. This one feels like a success compared to many of my earlier attempts in the series. I liked the framing within the original piece, as well as the "translation" that happens to the shapes and colors in the "head space". The piece behind it is a "Feigned Glass" oval I made a few years ago hung in an antique frame is called Carousel Centerpiece.