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My background: |
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I have always loved art and making things, but I really found my voice as an artist through woodcarving in 1980 (in Boston). My early pieces were very whimsical. A curving lizard with human hands carved from a straight willow branch. A twisting nude figure like Atlas or one of Michelangelo's slaves supporting a little bowl above his head, carved from a cherry log. It was titled: "urn for salted party nuts." From wood carving I went to stone carving (New York City), and then to welding steel (Berkeley, California). From welding my interests shifted to arranging elements and more purely formal investigations, and then to installations and the context of presentation, and then to looking at reality and presenting compositions I created through the camera lens.
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My first artist's statement as a photographer: |
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I used to work with different materials. Now I don't like to get my hands dirty. I call my works "Frames" because they are parts of reality framed by the camera and my eye. I am after Beauty, Humor, and The Sublime.
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A few statements about my work: |
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I show my connectedness to the world through the images I create.
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My work isn't so obvious.
It's a little more subtle; it's intensely considered compositions.
Simple, and beautiful, too.
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I hope people can look at my images and see what I see, how I see.
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Sometimes we can look at each other and be still and feel like we shift into a different state,
and feel like we are suspended, or beyond time, and it is in that space that I click the shutter.
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People don't like it when they can see their own pores in a photograph.
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The face and eyes, together with the body.
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I get so much pure pleasure just looking through the lens at things all around me. A high of seeing beauty – just by looking through the lens.
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I think it's all beautiful and insane at the same time.
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This is all I do: point and shoot.
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And...if you really want to know my take on art |
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