About the art I make...
As an artist, I use my camera and the powerful algorithms of my computer as I would my brush or drawing pencil.
These tools empower me as I observe, reflect, and respond to my personal experience and our broader human condition -- and ultimately, to re-imagine, transform and understand the world in ways not possible with traditional media.
Though documentary photography is not my goal, I collect images in public places and elsewhere much as a street photographer does - as an explorer who is open to unexpected encounters and "input from the universe" as my camera records its own version of my experience.
These tools empower me as I observe, reflect, and respond to my personal experience and our broader human condition -- and ultimately, to re-imagine, transform and understand the world in ways not possible with traditional media.
Though documentary photography is not my goal, I collect images in public places and elsewhere much as a street photographer does - as an explorer who is open to unexpected encounters and "input from the universe" as my camera records its own version of my experience.
In my studio, I curate these images. Through a process of organizing, synthesizing, and re-contextualizing, I transform them into something else. The resulting visual 'confections'* extend far and beyond their starting point into both the visual and symbolic planes.
As I work, I seek possibilities and connections in that echo chamber of my imagination, enjoying the collision, recombination and re-contextualization of images and ideas.
My aim is to explore possibilities and to create visual spaces that offer unexpected connections - and the possibility of transcendence and transformation.
In a broad sense, my work is grounded in the expanding technological power we have to create virtual realities - realities which empower a viewer to leave the physical world as they enter the non-physical (virtual) world of an artwork -- thereby opening up a potential transformation of consciousness.
*See Edward Tufte "Envisioning Information" et al