ARTIST STATEMENT

My art suggests 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. My focus is on whatever I happen to be exploring in the world around me, allowing images to resonate in my mind’s eye. Although photography is at the core of my work, I have always had an affinity for mixed media. Thus raw image files are just a starting point for me. Drawing on the Jasper Johns quote, “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.” I take an image or group of images and work on a visual transmutation of some kind. My expanded toolbox includes a Nikon, a MacBook, an iPad, an iPhone, Photoshop, a Wacom tablet, a sketchbook, various forms of graphite, markers and pastels. Inspiration generally finds me while I’m not actively pursuing it. It can come through music, natural and cultural environments, meditation; other artists’ work, moments in film, passages in literature.