As a peripatetic artist, my work emerges from walking in my urban environment. Yet, while the work is sensitive to my immediate surroundings, my intention is to conjure up worlds through a personal formal language. In the same breath, I explore the emotional potentials of photography. Purposely sidestepping precision and detail, I aspire to evoke feeling and atmosphere. I prioritize the medium’s poetic and expressive quality over its descriptive utility. All in all, my work speaks to transience, to the temporal nature of things. Aesthetically, the images inhabit a liminal space between abstraction and figuration.
The Buddhist principles of impermanence and mindfulness are integral to my practice. On my photo walks, I slip into a heightened state of presence, allowing me to experience the familiar in novel ways. The habitual perception of my surroundings gives way to an awareness of the unprecedented and unrepeatable nature of each moment. My internal state, outward attention, and the external circumstances converge and collaborate in constructing the image.
I welcome chance and cultivate an aptitude for serendipity. I embrace an instinctive, spontaneous approach to image making. Blur, soft focus, and imperfections contribute to the raw and impressionistic nature of the images, embodying an intuitive and unpremeditated response to the world. I use only minimal equipment, enabling me to grasp the moment unencumbered. I am constantly mindful of the interplay between intention and the unforeseen as I navigate a delicate balance between control and letting go.
Formal concerns transcend depiction. I engage with color, tone, line, shape, texture, and graphic considerations of composition while minimizing features that convey information or facts. Employing techniques such as simplification, abstraction, and reconfiguration, I look to transform reality. By distorting recognizable forms, I invite viewers to perceive the world through an altered, subjective lens.