ARTIST STATEMENT

My art reflects an interplay between nature, culture and spirituality and aspires to demonstrate the interconnectedness between these themes. I like to blur the boundaries between representation and abstraction and often find that one derives from the other.

For the past few years, I have been experimenting with black and white digital infrared photography. While my initial images proved to be visually arresting, for me they began to take on a certain sameness in their ‘look’.  So I started to play around with splashes of color, combining IR backgrounds with photos from my library.

What I like about infrared is that it captures images that aren’t visible to the naked eye. It feels like I’m photographing the essence of things and environments. What else intrigues me is the element of surprise. You can work with lenses and filters to establish some parameters but these measures are imprecise. As I’m shooting my only concerns are composition, contrast and focal length. UV light is largely irrelevant.