Filmmakers and painters have influenced my visual sense more than other photographers; the films of German Expressionists, Andrei Tarkovsky, Herzog, Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers, the paintings of El Greco, Kandinsky, Chagall, and Klee amongst many others.

Werner Herzog says an artist must use any means necessary to reach “the ecstatic truth,” a knowing mix of truth and lies that gets at the emotional core of a chosen subject more accurately than the a simple “accountant’s truth”. This attitude underlies my approach to photography, or more precisely digital art. The photograph is just the beginning of the process, its the raw digital information that can then be pushed and pulled, inverted and subverted, and ultimately transformed . The original photographs are building blocks, fragments of visual experience that can be digitally combined in a sort of photographic bricolage.