Introduction
Funding graciously provided by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Recently, I was inspired by a lecture given by famed Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal. The crux of the lecture centered around the idea that all the elements of our body and of the planet were once in the belly of a star. In response to this lecture I decided to photograph landscapes that had a very primitive, disordered and slightly chaotic quality to them...landscapes that gave me a sense of what their origins must have been like. In order to accentuate these qualities I have incorporated various organic materials, such as charcoal, into the printing process.
It is important that I a bring semi - abstract quality to each photograph I make. I never attempt to create a literal interpretation of what I observe. I do not photograph to document.
In this sense I have been greatly influenced by pictorialist approach to photography. Ultimately, the printing of the photograph is equally, if not more important, than the actual capturing of the image on film.