Artist Statement
“Photograph [what you] see and respond to emotionally.” Ansel Adams
Wherever I am, I listen to my environment. Something speaks to me – color, tone, shape, light – I respond emotionally. I extract form from nature, and I also look for natural form intersecting with – or of ephemeral light falling upon – the human environment. I attempt to capture spirit; essence; meditations.
I use photography as a medium to isolate, describe and share natural beauty.
Somewhat contrary to my early vocation as an architect, much of my photography lacks human scale relationships. I see macro/micro comparisons; galaxies and atomic particles. Cartography and microscopy. The fit of continents.
I engage in photography “as a pursuit of understanding v. a pursuit of fame and social visibility.”
paraphrased from Brooks Jensen, LensWork 129