For me, traveling is not only a means to have new experiences or meet with the unknown, it is also a means of spiritual cultivation. In my journeys I have used photography as a poetic, contemplative process analogous to Haiku poetry. Photography addresses those things I can sense when tuned into the heart of the events deeply, narrowly and secretly. Engi is a term within Buddhism meaning that nothing has a fixed substance or entity. I believe that means there is no boundary between that which is material and that which is thought.
Reality is the result of various causes and conditions gathering together.
Engi constitutes the field of our awareness of the universe and can be the vibration of thought patterns which structure all matter and light, or it can be the function of our participation with an indefinite number of possibilities. I would like to comprehend Engi as a way of observing abstract relationships as a complex whole through the process of combining photographs.