Where does a photograph reside? Sandwiched between mat boards and surrounded by a frame? Or is it an intangible thing that reveals itself in one's consciousness? I prefer to call my prints images and the experience that occurs within my mind's eye the photograph. Alas, so many photographs never cross over the bridge to become tangible images. Nonetheless, I relish those transcendent moments of in sight.
A wide variety of subject matter interests me. Rhythm, grace, mystery and the classical characteristics of beauty attract my attention. Themes that are associated with my images have to do with transience, loss, transcendence, incongruity and paradox. If the image has meaning it speaks first with a visual vocabulary and, perhaps, sometime in the future words can be found to express it.
I work primarily in black and white and identify with the "fine art" f/64 b&w photographic tradition. The work of Edward Weston, Ruth Bernhard, Imogen Cunningham among other masters of the tradition inspires me. The black and white format undermines habitual seeing and facilitates, instead, the creative art of seeing. Seeing this way can reveal the inherent poetry that lies within the most prosaic of objects. And then, there is the unique aesthetic of this genre that I find mesmerizing: the simple elegance of the subtly nuanced gray scale.