For years I have been actively documenting my life and the lives of those around me, recording events and creating order in a sometimes chaotic world. While my photographs focus on the personal, the familiar and quite simply the ordinary, the work strikes a balance between autobiography and fiction. Within my photographs physical distance is often manipulated to represent emotional distance. The casual glances people share can take on deeper significance, and what initially appears subjective and intimate is quite often a commentary on the larger contours of life. For me, the construction of my panoramic photographs, comprised of various single images, acts as a visual language.
Focal planes shift, panel by panel, guiding the viewer through each image.
I continually aspire to represent the spaces we inhabit, relationships we create, and the objects with which we surround ourselves. I hope the messages my photographs deliver speak of both my and of universal experience. I find the enduring power and the sheer ability of a photograph to express a thought, a moment, or an idea, to be the most powerful expression of myself, both as an artist, and as an individual.