Artist Statement
I am interested in edges and intersections of transformation where one thing moves inexorably to become something else. When, for instance, does the caterpillar end and the butterfly begin?
Where does a thing exist? Or is existence conferred by the observer?
When, exactly, does matter change from one state to another?
In quantum physics everything is in flux, shape-shifting energy fields whose potential becomes frozen into a state only when a method of observation is selected.
For me, the camera is my means of observation.
Process Statement
I am fortunate to call the Southwest — a place of incredible natural beauty — home. My travels frequently take me to Oregon, New Mexico, and Vermont. My photographs are of the images that surround me every day, neither posed nor staged, photographed in their innate surroundings, and in available natural light. All photographs are captured using a Sony Nex7 or a Nikon D3x. Digital files are optimized using Adobe Lightroom; layered in Photoshop Elements and then carefully printed in my studio using an HP Z3100 printer. Editioned pigment ink prints on Hahnemulle Smooth Fine Art (or comparable) archival paper are signed and numbered and dated.
My father was a photographer and my mother a painter and a pianist. From an early age I was immersed in the arts. I remember the magic of watching an image emerge from the developing tray in the basement darkroom and the afternoons spent lying under the baby grand piano, letting the waves of sound resonate through me.
While I inherited my love of photography from my father, I gained my fascination with light from watching my mother paint. There in her rooftop studio light streaming in through the windows as some person or other sat still for a portrait, I watched as the light changed through the day, through the seasons. In Art History I loved the paintings most that captured that magic - the Dutch Masters and much later the Surrealists. In photography I am attracted to the interplay of light and shadow, color and pattern, and the simple layering of juxtaposed images. Texture, pattern, fluidity, and change - these earliest influences continue to unfold in my work.
My work hangs in galleries, as well as in private and corporate collections from Vermont to Oregon and has been featured at Waxlander Gallery in Santa Fe, PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury VT and Afterimage Gallery in Dallas. I have representation through Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art in New York. Since 2009, 13 of my works have received honorable mentions from the International Photography Awards. In 2015 I was selected for ASMP’s Best of 2015 (American Society of Media Professionals).
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