My photography works explore the transition between the figurative and the abstract while honing in on the minutiae and often unexpected beauty of my everyday surroundings. I am interested in how humans interact with their environment and the materials and traces their activities leave behind. For me taking photographs is not a mere matter of recording what I see, but a continuous search for that unique, almost spiritual experience when all the elements, regardless of how incongruous they may be, flow into a seemingly unifying (and memorable) whole.

2020 marked the beginning of a new era for me. As with so many others, the global pandemic impacted by way of intensifying my awareness and my thinking. It led me to reflect more deeply: a new sense of being in a different world. Absorbing world issues and events like a sponge on a daily basis, renders a seeping of traces of that consciousness into my mixed media works perhaps inevitable,

My creative process is an intuitive one and involves the almost exclusive use of my own photographs and graphics. This provides me with a sense of intimacy and integrity that I appreciate as meaningful .

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