Artist Statement
Photography is a language for me, a way of telling what I see. The challenge is to convey meaning using light, form, shape, gesture, and of course, content. Often this process is intuitive, a search for something that is essentially inexpressible in words. As an early photography mentor, Kate Carter, often said, quoting Robert Frost, "We all sit in a circle and suppose. The secret sits in the center and knows."
I photograph many different subjects but the ones that draw me back repeatedly have a common theme of disruption – volcanoes, forest fires, revolutions, the risky behavior of cowboys. I’m drawn to the aftermath of upheaval, be it geological or social, momentary or spread over millennia.
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