Statement
Categories and preconceptions often break down, revealing the world as other. My work explores the emotive quality of these collapsed moments and the charge of things both hidden and revealed, placing value on the strange, the confusing, and the ambiguous. My photographs capture and extend the momentary surprise, recognition and sense of presence that we sometimes experience in a flash of light, shadow, reflection, color, line, or shape within the overlooked, ephemeral and ordinary.
Perhaps the most amazing sensation passed on to us by prehistoric man is that of presentiment. It will always continue. We might consider it as an eternal proof of the irrationality of the universe. Original man must have wandered through a world full of uncanny signs. He must have trembled at each step.
Giorgio de Chirico
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
Gilles Deleuze
Aphasia: Loss of ability to speak or understand language. Nonsensical speech. Muteness.
Sometimes even when we have words, they are inadequate, or seem inaccessible. Yet experiences that can’t be described can still have resonance, affect. They may touch, move, or infect; they may manifest a feeling, disposition or tendency. I make images to access that space where my knowledge and language fail.
Phenomenophilia: A fondness for transient and ambiguous visual experiences that do not have fixed meaning.
Phenomenophilia is looking away at the colored shadow on the wall, or keeping the head turned to the angle at which the sunspot stays in view... We can't believe ourselves entitled to this feeling about a perceptual object so ephemeral that we can't even imagine that someone else would see it as we do, or even see it at all... something that could be coming to be and does not yet have the liabilities of anything that is.
Rei Terada
…the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! —“
powers and people --
and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me… Rainer Maria Rilke
…if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments…
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Statement
Categories and preconceptions often break down, revealing the world as other. My work explores the emotive quality of these collapsed moments and the charge of things both hidden and revealed, placing value on the strange, the confusing, and the ambiguous. My photographs capture and extend the momentary surprise, recognition and sense of presence that we sometimes experience in a flash of light, shadow, reflection, color, line, or shape within the overlooked, ephemeral and ordinary.
Perhaps the most amazing sensation passed on to us by prehistoric man is that of presentiment. It will always continue. We might consider it as an eternal proof of the irrationality of the universe. Original man must have wandered through a world full of uncanny signs. He must have trembled at each step.
Giorgio de Chirico
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
Gilles Deleuze
Aphasia: Loss of ability to speak or understand language. Nonsensical speech. Muteness.
Sometimes even when we have words, they are inadequate, or seem inaccessible. Yet experiences that can’t be described can still have resonance, affect. They may touch, move, or infect; they may manifest a feeling, disposition or tendency. I make images to access that space where my knowledge and language fail.
Phenomenophilia: A fondness for transient and ambiguous visual experiences that do not have fixed meaning.
Phenomenophilia is looking away at the colored shadow on the wall, or keeping the head turned to the angle at which the sunspot stays in view... We can't believe ourselves entitled to this feeling about a perceptual object so ephemeral that we can't even imagine that someone else would see it as we do, or even see it at all... something that could be coming to be and does not yet have the liabilities of anything that is.
Rei Terada
…the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! —“
powers and people --
and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me… Rainer Maria Rilke
…if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments…
Neil deGrasse Tyson