Artist Statement

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I seek not only to capture the physical realm, but go beyond to expressive interpretation. The world experienced through the lens is where I encounter the intimacy of natural surrealism face to face in communion for the deeper beauties of reality. Making photographs combine my sources and references to bring imagination, light, nature, time and space together with a transcendence to reality for me. I make ethereally beautiful natural images depicting that nether realm between fantasy and reality. My images rarely refer to a specific location. They may point to places both distant, and nearby, while reaching to engage the viewer more with aesthetic essence than drama. While it is ultimately true that I make my pictures somewhere and of something, those realities play superficially in my art. They simply are facts of the piece, just as paper, canvas, dye, or other materials. Light and how I perceive it and record the interaction in the natural world form my art.

My photographs originate using vintage and advanced modern cameras to image what I see in nature. Capturing what I see in the camera remains primary in my work, I strive to match the natural image for direct color printing. Using archival color pigment digital printing techniques and materials, I create luminous prints with full natural color and tonal depth on acid free, 100% cotton fiber, fine art paper. This allows me to create individual, finished photographs faithful to the natural image and of heirloom quality, in signed and numbered editions. Finishing each print includes museum mattes and solid natural cherry or white maple framing.

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