T For Transition

This ongoing body of work shares with most all of my work the appreciation of and thus use of basic life-giving materials that I see as our ‘root-ingredients’ — the tangible substances that make up much of Life’s most basic means to function. These correlate to the less tangible functionalities such as our spirit, our daily experience through the world that uses a wordless, non-physical language. I am making direct imagery of these essential materials, dismissing the camera and working directly via a scanner lens. These are substances that make up our physicality and thus in my view, our consciousness as well - the foundation on which each of our unique experiences through the world rest; just because there are physical and also unseen ways in which we connect with the world and the cosmos surrounding us, does not mean they are unrelated. I use materials such as my blood or reconstituted hemoglobin, chlorophyllin, or dust, and sometimes various medicines that course through my body daily, directly onto clear negatives. I am preoccupied with this seeming contrast between the world of the anatomical, and that of the emotional/spiritual/psychological - the world of our daily experience. For me this is not a contrast at all, but two parts of a whole in harmony, on a micro and macro level, connecting further out into the universe we so far know. The mind and body will never be separate; they are symbiotic. Beneath our conscious we are so much and yet something nearly invisible - Beneath our Humanity, our Stories, we are Blood, Sinew, Synapse, Bone.