From the earliest stages of his mature career, his objects challenged what a photograph or photographic image might be--from a transparency mounted in a light box (Kodak Safety Film/Christmas Mistake, 1971) to one layered between sheets of Plexiglas to create a threedimensional, handheld object (
Venus Mirrored, 1968); from offset lithography on magazines (Periodical #6, Third Group, 1971) to large bas-relief collages of Hindu deities made with lascivious images, from magazines (Shiva and Parvati Seated, Embracing, and Their Son Ganesha,1991).