Artist Statement

Making photographs is a meditation of sorts, a search for truth, which I do both with and

without cameras, and via a variety of analog photographic (and some self-designed

mixed media) processes.

I am drawn to desolate land and seascapes and deeply inspired by the beauty and

textures of the western U.S., though I live in New York.

All of my photographs are equivalent images or subconscious self-portraits, and I

specialize in both literal and figurative landscape photographs. My bodies of work are

closely related.

Regardless of the process I use to translate my vision, my work is simultaneously about

what is visible to the naked eye and what is not, with the latter revealing itself during my

analog printing processes, which also incorporate poetry that often comes to me in the

darkroom.

Further, making photograms with sand, ocean water, snow, and ice, among other

materials, opened my eyes to what a landscape photograph could be as a unique art

object.

I fell into photography by way of eastern religions, and the latter quickly found its way

into my processes and never left. There is essentially no separation between my

life/myself and my prints, which I think of as visual poems or spiritual landscape

photographs.