I have studied at the Carl Jung Institute in Zurich and Kusnacht, Switzerland, La Sorbonne in Paris, and the conducted field research in rainforest ecology / primatology at La Suerte Research Station in Costa Rica.

ARTIST STATEMENT

As a mixed media artist and photographer I bring a love of storytelling and a penchant for the offbeat to my artwork from a career in documentary film, television, and event design in both New York City and San Francisco.

Through photography I’m able to catch glimpses of the ethereal, and to reclaim that pure sense of awe and curiosity that tend to get lost in the everyday. It’s my way of staying connected with the natural world, with the human experience, and perhaps what has come before.

I may hang back unobtrusively, waiting for the subject to tell me their story without words – an expressive face, a private, nuanced exchange between two people, or perhaps a revealing gesture of the body.

Other times, I actively seek out these moments, venturing out to the woods with camera in hand to poke around abandoned houses, hang upside down from trees, and wade around in creek beds.

I’ll meander through city streets in search of “treasures” – vibrant wall murals tucked away between gas meters in an alleyway, tiny handprints pressed into a building cornerstone, or a secret message scrawled in graffiti on the back of a hidden door. It feels like these things were left for me to find, as if they were a reward for taking the time to really see…

I like to play with scale, perspective, and context, and through this an object can shed it’s old “self” and take on a new identity. An ordinary oak tree becomes a dancer in mid-leap through the shape of its trunk and tilt of its branches. A pile of rusty scrap metal becomes a magnificent sculpture. A tiny insect becomes a larger than life creature that dominates the frame.

With every image I capture, I offer a story to the viewer. Whether you are seeing your own story in it or bearing witness to mine, you enter into a dynamic exchange. It’s this exchange that drives me to create, to explore, and to uncover…