CAUSE AND EFFECT

I believe that images should be thought-provoking, rather than lend themselves to fixed translations. Images should produce ambiguity, translating into a range of knowledge sets depending on the viewer’s individual baggage. There’s no quest for a guiding truth or synthesis. The unknown and illegible are uncanny, and that’s where I want the image to draw its power from. I’m not rejecting logic, just creating space for the existence of images that make us think—not clearly, but emotionally, generating experiences that the receiver may or may not understood. It’s a relationship of cause and effect; it’s about what the work causes in the observer and the conclusions he or she draws from them. It’s not my narrative that counts, but the one the viewer derives from the work. I’m interested in images that leave gaps for the viewers to fill, thus making their own stories.