I work on the borderlands of photography where it edges into things you don’t expect. I’m a photographer who doesn’t use a camera. And perhaps a little bit like a mad scientist or tinkerer, I enjoy seeing what I can make the materials of photography (light, paper, chemistry) do. At its root, photography is “drawing with light.” Taking this idea rather literally, I use light (from the enlarger as well as other sources) and a continually evolving series of darkroom and color printing processes to create images directly on the photographic paper. These images, often called photograms, have played an interesting role throughout the history of photography. My work, however, is anything but nostalgic. Dense and often convoluted, the images erupt from darkness suggesting enigmatic worlds that hover between nature and technology. Blending analog and digital processes, the images conjure up spaces of dynamic interchange where energy is harnessed momentarily to reveal a vast array of forms. These forms become a vehicle for communicating complex, non-verbal experiences. I create fictional worlds that are as suggestive of the cosmos as they are of cellular structures or computer generated environments.
