Artist’s Statement

I teach at a digital arts school. Ironically, the digital revolution that I am immersed in has made me appreciate working in the traditional mediums more than ever, for the following reasons:

-They hone your ability to commit, to embrace limitations, and to incorporate mistakes in the development of an image.

-They help you to realize that the "vision" is in you, rather than in a complex machine.

-Their application requires a physicality that viscerally connects the artist to the artwork.

-There is a "somethingness" to a physical artwork that is deeply gratifying in the face of the continually composting news-feed of digital media.

-The physical image as object influences place by being an unchanging iconic touch-point that exists through time.

All this leads me to my basic mission when creating imagery, to slow down time, through physical and perceptual immersion, appreciation and creative engagement. These techniques, when combined with the visual language, create little eternities, eddies of stillness in the rushing river of time. Let's call these little eternities "images".

Images are a way to simultaneously step into and out of Life, and subjectively revere it. This process nurtures the experience of the world as a co-creation in which your perception, your opinion, your emotions, your humor, insight and skill are all undeniably woven into the very fabric of existence. And I hold this as a good place to be.