Muted Beauty

My first "aesthetic" experiences took place in nature. Solitary, in a summer -green field, as a child, I was awed by the vast beauty of sky and land. I have always felt a resonance between my visual perception of landscape and my own reveries. We each have a sense of our inner psychic space, as well as an internal geography of our bodies. Landscape reflects and mirrors our sense of self. Escaping from narrow definitions of landscape as merely picturesque and landscape as genre, my photographs are a means of expressing the connection between the external world and our internal, subjectively experienced, emotional universe. These images of the natural world subdued and muted by fog, reflect diverse, emotional states, such as melancholy, or the desire to hide, or soften or obscure.