artist statement

I’m working in the landscape tradition by exploring our human relationship with the landscape - within the passage of time.

Every moment offers changes due to the light, to spacial shifts, i.e. my viewpoint and perspective, to the growth of vegetation and decay of the same, and the effects of the expanding or retreating human presence.  As a moment in this interplay, the evolving environment is never to be the same again.

In this body of work, my focus is on vernacular and industrial landscapes, and it invites a poetic process that the viewer might lend to the pictures.  My artwork encourages a particular collaboration between viewer and the image.

Vernacular landscape refers to a landscape that has been shaped by ethnic and cultural characteristics by everyday humanistic endeavors.  My imagery is experienced through the accumulation of the beholder’s share, in any given person’s space and time.  In short, my images reflect my study of the infinite facets of our present culture and how it might rewrite the history of the past and influence the future. 

In my mind, the environment is “art in process” and is integral with the natural world.

A celebration of freedom – curiosity and discovery is what motivates my photography.  The camera is my retina and defines my basic nature.

Humanity in my images is by chance; I prefer to allow structures and human artifacts in the landscape to reveal a humanistic relationship to the organic fabric of what is depicted in my images.

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