When commissioned to create nineteen original artworks for the Commodore Hotel in Astoria, I developed a method of sourcing imagery by throwing casting nets (used for fishing) off of a roof in China Town, and documenting them in mid flight. The idea was to document a staged occurrence that was dynamic in form and held a degree of probability each time it was performed. Prior the photo shoot, I asked two friends to learn how to throw casting nets via an instructional video on You-Tube. I discovered that the best way to

photograph the nets “in flight”  was to be below them, using the sky as backdrop. To achieve this effect, the shoot had to take place on a section of our studio's roof where two buildings met; one building being about 10 feet higher than the other.  This afforded me a comfortable degree of space from which I could photograph the nets as they were being thrown.  This initial photo shoot was the beginning of several new approaches for sourcing imagery within my practice. See the finished artwork for the Commodore Hotel Astoria here.