Artist Statement
THE POETRY OF PLACE
“The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold”.
Gaston Bachelard
My earliest aesthetic experiences took place in nature. Solitary, in a summer-green, field, as a child, I was awed by the vast beauty of sky and land. I have always felt a resonance between my visual perceptions of landscape and my own reveries. We all have a sense of our inner psychic space as well as an internal geography of our bodies. Landscape reflects and mirrors this sense of self.
Escaping from narrow definitions of landscape as merely picturesque and landscape as genre, my photographs are a means of expressing the connection between the external world and our internal, subjectively felt universe.
Process Statement
The photograph is a pathway between the external world of nature and the inner landscape of the mind.
To see other places, to be transported, to take in the world, to revel in nature, to be removed from the myriad, quotidian moments of everyday life.
To experience the heartbeat of the universe, evidence of the movement of tectonic plates, the Nazca plates, still shifting, the moment at the estancia in Argentina when I stood on that high promontory and looked out at the vast expanse of the land, the Andes encircling the Upsala glacier, the presence of the Pacific ocean in the rocky surround, the fossils of Mesozoic sea creatures embedded in the rings of stone, the bottom of the ocean, the top of the mountain, all one in this place and in my consciousness.