BEBOPNOW
These constructed realities were my attempt to visually manifest the desire and struggle to create. My still life images had grown increasingly abstract over the years, and I now wanted to try my hand at sculpting the objects to be photographed.
As I began to work, it soon became apparent that the images were about a lot more than just the effort to be creative. I had begun internet dating after a difficult divorce and the images seemed to also capture some of that experience. The title of the series, Bebopnow, was my username on a dating site. My name, Ira, means watchful, and is one of the reasons there is an eye in every photo. To my great surprise, through abstraction, I had created some of my most personal work to date.
