Submission

Using traditional still life materials I strive to construct personal meaning using humor, chance, absurdity and historical references in my set-ups. I have always been more interested in making a picture instead of taking a picture, and have taught a class by that name for over 25 years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I use living and dead animals to challenge my own boundaries of physical discomfort and taste. The collision of intentionality and chance is one of the things photography can do uniquely well. More often employed in street photography, this collision in the studio has helped me create humorous, unexpected and elegant still lifes. The objects in the photographs are domestic and very personal, they involve life cycles of nature and unresolved personal drama. My photographic work is a continuing narrative about all that interests me. Photographing is the theatre of my life.