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These photos reflect a love of finding paint in unexpected places - outside of paintings, when it’s just “stuff” along with the trash and grime. My background in painting shapes how I see through photography. It’s why I tend to crop out the wider context in favor of isolated parts, which makes the work about interior experiences and open to multiple interpretations.

I don’t photograph people, but I experience the work as figurative. Formal devices like bi-lateral symmetry (or deviations from it), strong verticals, weight and tension allude to the body without depicting it. Using the body as a vehicle for responding to or examining the world has always been the main impulse behind my work, regardless of medium.

I like what I find on the periphery. I am drawn to where the city’s “slip” is showing - the blemishes that reveal and endear. I want to capture these transient, chance arrangements that leap out of the everyday before they’re destroyed by time and weather. Preservation through photography is an illusion, but this motivates the process despite the futility. Recognizing this futility forces me to acknowledge the old cliche that making the work is as much about the journey as the destination.

There's a collection of some of my Flickr photos in book form:

www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1200355