I am driven by a deep empathy and emotional connection that goes beyond analysis or intellect. This profound connection shapes my artistic journey and influences the essence of my work.
The process of making these images was not an intellectual pursuit but instead visceral, subconscious, and pure. Like Bradbury at his typewriter, with my camera I don't think… I feel.
In the introduction to his book, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Ansel Adams stated:
“Description of the inspiration or the meaning of a work of photography, or of any other medium of art, lies in the work itself. The endless discussions of creativity appear to me to be pointless intellectual carousels; their purpose seems more the presenting of burnt offerings and worshiping of modish identifications than the achieving of mutual enlightenment. Only the print contains the artist's meaning and message.”
In Against Interpretation and Other Essays, Susan Sontag writes:
“…In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' It is to turn the world into this world. ('This world'! As if there were any other.) The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have."
I hope that viewers experience my photographs as they were created—through instinctive feelings, a natural connection, and an unfiltered response.