Derron has explored the world through the photographic images since discovering an old 35mm camera in a drawer in his childhood home. This mechanism used for capturing light became a means for expressing wonder and inspiration in a playful meditation and study of memory. The growing accessibility of high quality digital cameras began to overshadow the alchemy of the photochemistry and in his thesis “As is Gone,” he attempted to beckon questions about the foundations of the photographic images and the reconstruction of our virtual realities. To miss the mark was the intent, with focus and exposure being the primary examples in these abstracted micro landscapes.

After completing a B.F.A. degree in photography from Seattle University, cultures and landscapes aboard fueled a chaotic and delusional abstraction of light in the most timeless sense. The advent and succession of social media and the hyper real imagery that spawned the artist’s disenchantment drove a wedge deeper into his self-worth and perspectives.

Work became carpentry, something real to hold, understand, and perfect. Alas it is and industry wrought with environmental degradation. The aspiration is to find work and expression that grows and connection with the universe and nature and shares that with others.