He has a penchant for searching for paintings that have historically influenced how we as a culture interpret art or have directly inspired him. His choices range from Vincent van Gogh’s still life with sunflowers to Monet’s Water Lilies. Luoma’s approach is a subjective rendering of how these selected paintings project their presence. He uses the same negative as a receptacle for collecting each unmasking, as he slowly builds up his image through multiple exposures, using cut-out templates as a means of blocking and redirecting light through a series of standard color lenses. His approach is not to duplicate the original, but to interpret it in the spirit of how it was conceived.