Memento Vivere

Passing through life is a complex and abstract experience. Finding ways to give significant expression to the ineffable depths of life is both necessary and challenging. Images, however, have the potential to articulate the elaborate themes of life with visual complexity. My interest in observing nature is not to reproduce a loyal image of what I see, but to carefully extract some sort of force, a kind of universal intimacy that resides in the ordinary. This impulse is combined with a strong desire to experiment. Each piece is an enigma to resolve through layers, texture, the desaturation of color, or the combination of materials. It is all part of the narrative, the psychology of the image, and resides in the hope that through some kind of play or alchemy, I might be able to achieve the depth of truth and reconciliation that I long for.