With \”Redacted Photography™\” through color, motion and meticulous omission I play with images and perception to highlight the imprecision of memory…and the joy of romanticized recollection.

My work begins with a photograph and through a subtle minimalistic approach, ends with an impression. The work is a fugue on my fascination with the unreliability of memory and the fight for clarity to recall the fleeting moments of a travelers journey. The work is systematically subjective, referencing recognizable form at its basic level and inviting the viewer to fill in the lost spaces that punctuate the canvas.

I have always been drawn to unfinished work and the forms that are created in the transformative (and for me, magical) process that lies between concept and creation.

As an artist I am driven by the challenge to present an image…a memory… with as little information as possible, while still preserving impression and impact.

In the Pacific Northwest, I currently live and work on pieces which I hope will work for you.                                                                        
                                                                                                                          Tom Saknit