Artist James Canning's haunting, evocative piece, "Global Warning," is based on my own photograph, "Iceberg Abstract."

James began creatively modifying his photographs long before Photoshop was invented. He discovered early on that patterns within nature are not only beautiful by themselves, but suggest structures and shapes that evoke other worlds as well. He begins a piece using found objects, textures, and color patterns, and then begins layering photos of those materials that combine in ways that intrigue, suggest, and confound. Careful blending, recoloring, reshaping, etc. are accomplished on the computer to produce the final piece, which is rendered using dye infusion on metal.