My work reflects the belief that all phenomena witnessed in the world are part of a physical reality. Many of these photographs were taken with completely manual cameras and were not digitally altered. I view each exposure like a science experiment involving light, refraction and a chemical reaction that alters the film over time.

While conducting these experiments, I seek results that contain the aesthetic elements that I am drawn to: clean compositions with definitive fields of color and patterns that are purposefully placed to create a dynamic collage.

Because my photographs relate directly to a light event, the result is a reality that differs from a painting or digitally altered photograph. I make conscious choices to reduce the arbitrary in order to express a vision. This vision is ultimately realist, empirical, and devoid of the “hand of God.” This is because ideas of a spiritual world are, to me, misunderstandings of experience. In my photographs, therefore, the perceived elements are the result of the physical and nothing more.