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 transient and ambiguous visual experiences that do not have fixed meaning. 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.
One of my most recent series of photographs draws on the concept of “aphasia,” the loss of the ability to speak or understand language. Sometimes what it is slips between words. Sometimes even when we have words, they are inadequate, or seem inaccessible, obscured. But what can’t quite be described can still have resonance or affect. It may touch, move, or infect; it may manifest a feeling, disposition or tendency. I make images to access that space where my knowledge and language fail.
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 transient and ambiguous visual experiences that do not have fixed meaning. 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.
One of my most recent series of photographs draws on the concept of “aphasia,” the loss of the ability to speak or understand language. Sometimes what it is slips between words. Sometimes even when we have words, they are inadequate, or seem inaccessible, obscured. But what can’t quite be described can still have resonance or affect. It may touch, move, or infect; it may manifest a feeling, disposition or tendency. I make images to access that space where my knowledge and language fail.
