What is the relationship between what is physically real and tangible, and what is abstract?  This is one of the questions that guides my photography.

    The relationship between physical reality and abstraction in art is a guiding force in my photography.  I am interested in the place where the line between what is physically real and tangible and what our eyes read as abstract becomes blurred and unclear.  This is a place where actual objects seen through a macro lens begin to feel transformed, sometimes they look as if they are abstract paintings, sometimes they appear to be space like or dreamy, other times like aerial photography, it all depends on the subject I am photographing and the imagination of the viewer.  However, the identity of the subject is still present, only it is amplified.   I tend to photograph both naturally occurring subjects, as seen in my mineral collection, and man-made objects like blown glass.  Though I do not limit myself to these subjects alone.

    My motivation began with curiosity, but as my work grew, the images that were revealing themselves to me began to take on deeper and more nuanced meaning.  

    I am not a mineralogist, so I cannot explain in scientific terms what minerals are or how they form.  However, this is not necessary because my work is about letting the minerals I photograph speak for themselves, visually, up close, in  an intimate kind of way.  For me, minerals are like poems created by the earth, possessing beauty, intelligence in a language older than words, pointing to the deep mystery of existence.

   I’m interested in capturing a kind of innerspace that is physical but points to the metaphysical. The deep rhythms and patterns in objects where we can actually see movement and growth occurring in what appears to be still.