For me, creating photographs is a contemplative art - a cross between poetry and prayer. Although I have been passionately engaged in this practice and process for many years, I continue to be amazed at how photographs of objective reality, filtered through the lens of inner reality, can become so idiosyncratic .

    It is beauty more than blight -whether in nature or in the human spirit- that tends to awaken my inner eye. My images depict those moments of transcendent appreciation of ordinary reality so blessed by the clarity of light and color that it seems heightened to a dream. I am less interested in concrete representation of a specific site than I am in the wonder evoked by it.

    Spontaneously, in the last year or so, my photographic inclination has shifted from individual images to those in synchronistic combination. I am not drawn to the stitching together of panoramas per se. Rather I am fascinated with narrative, non -continuous sequences that resonate beneath the surface of consciousness. As the brain scrambles to complete the gestalt of the connection, it is guided into a different state of awareness, perhaps a different intuitive reality. Hence the “Infinity Series Triptychs”. Beyond being attracted by the mental and emotional impact of these juxtapositions, I am riveted by the formal, visual elements that make these conjoined images into a satisfying, coherent statement.