Shoreline Series

My photographs begin in photojournalism and inevitably lead to expressions of intensely personal art. Art is a way for me to tell stories, and articulate what I am incapable of expressing in words. Themes of oneness, witness and longing grow from personal experience in nature, life and work under sail and the strength of human meaning as expressed in our works. Influences include Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, who found a universe of living story in the tiny world of 19th-century Whitby, England; Alfred Stieglitz, prominent member of the Photo-Secession in New York who helped make photography an accepted art form; and the American painter Andrew Wyeth, who opened my eyes to seeing structures and landscapes through light and texture. The photographs of my Shoreline Series, five of which are entered here, share fog in the village of Essex, Connecticut. Fog challenges us to adapt to its disruption of best-laid plans and opens us to seeing facets of our lives in minute detail.