Artist Statement

Artist's Statement

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine

Any photograph I take I want one to dissect their own imagination, searching within themselves the story the picture tells, to draw out ones imagination. To taste the substance of what the photograph is, what they hear and feel from the image. To not just look at the picture, but to actually see it, and understand it under their own terms. I want someone to look at my art and wonder, what's just up those stairs, just beyond the ajar door, or what magic is at hand.

A picture is more than just a piece of time captured within a light-sensitive emulsion, it is an experience one has whose story is told through an enchanting image. I photograph the world in the ways I see it. Every curious angle, vibrant color, and abnormal subject makes me think, and want to spark someone else's thought process. The photographs in this work were not chosen by me, but by the reactions each image received when looked at. If a photo was merely glanced at or given a casual compliment, then I didn't feel it was strong enough a work, but if one was to stop somebody, and be studied in curiosity, or question, then the picture was right to be chosen.

My mind is constantly taking in situations frame by frame, whether its zooming in on a minute detail, or soaking in the grander view. I always bring things down to a picturesque perspective. I'm not expressing myself, in terms, the world is expressing itself through me. Art isn't something one creates, it is , it exists, its just a matter of how see it, perceive it, and move it. Art is in everyone, and in me. Whether it comes out in my painting, writing, feeling, thoughts, actions, or photographs its still the most powerful thing that moves me day by day.

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