Statement
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
I grew up in the Phoenix area, and have called Tucson home since 1989, completing my BFA at the University of Arizona. In 2012 I moved to St. Louis for two years to pursue an MFA at Washington University. Since then I have been back in my hometown, making art and teaching at Pima Community College.
My photographic work draws on my background in drawing and painting; my interests in philosophy and poetry; and a fascination with the mysterious and confusing parts of human life – the slipperiness of time and space, light and dark. I seek out the sense of presence, surprise, and recognition that we sometimes experience momentarily, in a flash of light, shadow, reflection, color, line, or shape within the overlooked, ephemeral and ordinary. My work is about the charge of things, both hidden and revealed, and the value of transient and ambiguous visual experiences that do not have fixed meaning.
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.
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
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
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
I grew up in the Phoenix area, and have called Tucson home since 1989, completing my BFA at the University of Arizona. In 2012 I moved to St. Louis for two years to pursue an MFA at Washington University. Since then I have been back in my hometown, making art and teaching at Pima Community College.
My photographic work draws on my background in drawing and painting; my interests in philosophy and poetry; and a fascination with the mysterious and confusing parts of human life – the slipperiness of time and space, light and dark. I seek out the sense of presence, surprise, and recognition that we sometimes experience momentarily, in a flash of light, shadow, reflection, color, line, or shape within the overlooked, ephemeral and ordinary. My work is about the charge of things, both hidden and revealed, and the value of transient and ambiguous visual experiences that do not have fixed meaning.
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.
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
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