PhotographyAs an artist who is also a philosopher and a poet, my approach is interdisciplinary, even as the products of these variable modes remain distinct, in turn surrendering the viewer/reader to the compositional depth of multi-valent meaning in the examination of phenomena at the margins of the view. I take for the subject of my visual work the unaffectedly immediate, the fit and thrum of the everyday, with all of its attendant cultural and historical burdens, training the revelatory scrutiny of the lens on the overlooked, the liminal in the perceptual field. This work is always in series, forcing the viewer to the deduction of the conceptual framework that delimits its iterations—a kind of poetic condensation, owing as much to the busy repetitions of musical minimalism as the methodological and compositional constraints of conceptual or geometric abstraction. The resultant images demonstrate a formal precision that compels ideological critique, an active evocation of wonderment, humor, and pathos in the exposition of the ready-to-hand.
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