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My work generally begins with a photograph. While various levels of manipulation and overlay are applied, the basic foundation and form of a piece remains very much grounded in photography. There is a certain degree of haphazardness involved in my process. That is to say that I don't always have an immediate grand vision for a piece, but rather an acknowledgment and awareness of a resonance between myself and my material. This relationship does not always produce what I consider worthwhile work, but even through these 'failed' pieces I generally find growth in some way.
Many of my pieces incorporate multiple images. As a result, my work offers me a distinctly different experience than that of another observer. Having captured these images myself, each component holds within it, for me, a much wider gamut of representation than strictly visual. For me, these images would be more likened to memories; as in a contemporary photo album context. Memories with very specific sensual contexts ... the touch, taste, smell, and emotive sensations are mine alone. Taken a step further, many of my images incorporate photographs spanning multiple shoots from different locations at various points in time. This process transforms the piece from the form of a memory into something perhaps more closely likened to a dream. An amalgamation of memories abstracted into something completely unique and greater than the sum of its parts. This process dissolves the works function as a memory trigger, and allows me a unique opportunity to sit as audience to my own work.
"Photography's past, though short, has been complex, full of problems that are peculiarly its own, yet with a relevance to the other visual arts of our own time which has hardly been touched on. Photography is a modern art in the sense that its entire history belongs within the industrial age, and that it seems to encompass both art and science, or at least to use science for artistic ends."
- Milton W. Brown
These words describe a duality between science and art. Taken a step further they illustrate a duality between the body and the soul. Photography fights still for legitimacy as an art form, and the digital medium is now beginning this same struggle. Out of this duality emerges the artist. The artist, through his work, bridges the difference between these polar opposites. I see the artist archetype evolving, born of science, through an adolescence of self discovery, and now maturing into a state of balance, unification and expression. I perceive art as existing transcendent to any process or medium. As an artist my work bridges science and fine art, my art creates mediation from thought, dance from movement, empathy from communication , and harmony in chaos.
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