Miscellaneous Provocations

I like to explore the beauty discoverable in both likely and unlikely forms, including (people) that, to my imagination, suggest an intriguing, transformable potential. I find them in the streets, at the beach or in the garden, and occasionally in dreams, where the surreal tends to lurk. In other words, all the usual locales. I think many of the photos I make are relatively straight forward. But I'm also taken with the conceptual, abstract and the surreal where there's less to be made of strictly rational / logical elements per se. In these, I'm hoping to create images that are beautiful and capable of prompting delight (or any felt emotion) in spite of their inherent confusion or absurdity or even repulsiveness, without expectation of an artist-defined "meaning." As inspiration, I draw on a quote from the writer Jerzy Kosinski. "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke." (When I swap 'provoke' for 'evoke', I like it just as well.)