This is a general artist’s statement.
Much of my artistic sensibility centers on threshold moments. I think those moments have the capacity to open up and reveal worlds to us, change the way we see and think, and thus to reshape our lives. Experiencing those moments is made easier by fostering a mindful disposition, a way to look deeply and be present so that we remain open to the fraying edges or intersections in everyday life where such thresholds appear. I seek those moments because they also hold great promise for feeling and seeing how everything is interconnected.
The primary way in which I want to express that sensibility is through images that reveal or seem to overlay one aspect of life over another, prompting the viewer to “see through.” Sometimes that results in images that help us see anew, that challenge our assumptions and activate feelings of human warmth and connectedness. At other times, what is revealed is far more fragile and unsettling. For me this requires presence, an eye for the grace with which different moments of life come together and reveal what’s being there and to which we have remained blind. This artistic inclination is driven more by my Zen humanist background than by any past great masters or intricate philosophies of art.
In quite general fashion then, much of my photography is inspired by such edgework. From there it proceeds given personal projects and aspirations that constantly challenge the way I perceive.
NOTA BENE: I don’t articulate anything more specific, except as it may concern a specific project. If anything has stayed with me as a result of my training as Rhetorician… it is that I want to shrug off symbolic frameworks. I am always looking for ways in which various yokes constrain us. Too specific a construct of photographic vision is also another way to constrain possibility and imagination. Besides, inspiration might come precisely from the tension and friction natural to those intersections.