Artist Statement

“I am the adventurer on a voyage of discovery, ready to receive fresh impressions, eager for fresh horizons, not in the spirit of a military conqueror to impose myself or my ideas, but to identify myself in, and unify with, whatever I am able to recognize as significantly part of me: the ‘me’ of universal rhythms.”
- Edward Weston

Along with many others artists I can tell you it’s hard to describe a feeling in visual terms, to take this world we live in and transform it onto a 2-dimensional space. The beginning rush is a raw primal instinct that you are always chasing, you visualize an image in a fraction of a second and the rest is trying to bring it to life. Our equipment, never an end in itself, and our intellectual property can only strengthen our vision and bring us closer to the finished print. For me I don’t pretend like I can interpret the scenes I am photographing, and more often than not couldn’t explain the intricacies of formal composition or why I photograph the way I do. But I do believe I always walk away from a photograph with more, an allusion of what could be in the finished artwork. It is not simply a realist approach to viewing a scene, for me it is a revelation. And for the fractions of seconds or minutes that are the exposures I understand Weston’s idea of unity.