Yours Not to Reason Why

The submissions here are all photos or photo-collages I've made over the past three years. A lot of my fine art work is informed by a deep habit of collecting anonymous photos, tintypes, mugshots, vintage postcards, and paper ephemera of all kinds. Since the remit here was to submit "single images" I picked out individual pictures that I thought might display a range of disparate "stand-alone" techniques and interests. But paradoxically I find them more of a piece--more of a *group* psychically speaking--than I planned. They are no doubt linked by an 'eye' and a sensibility: an incorrigible mixture of the antiquarian and the surreal, of archness and ambivalence. Whatever quirk or eccentricity it is that draws me to the things I collect, the same hankering after the old and the odd and the dream-like is reflected in my own image-making. .