Artist Statement

For more than two decades, my lens-based practice has been shaped by three questions that resist resolution: the instability of perception, the impermanence of existence, and the fragility of identity. These are not themes I have chosen, but conditions I have found myself unable to leave.

Within four cycles and a number of long-form series, my inquiry has moved through different formal expressions, each one reaching into the tensions that make these questions so persistently urgent: subjective experience against objective reality, the self against the world that shapes it, the one against the many. These tensions do not resolve. But in giving them form, a path emerges: that despite the weight of our existence, the light may persist.

In the current decade, my practice has arrived in its fourth cycle, focusing on abstracted botanical forms suspended between becoming and dissolution. This perceptual experience is the means by which the existential concerns of my inquiry find their most immediate home. A single blossom, flower or leaf observed closely dissolves at distance into pure field of color and light: the individual becoming collective, perception itself shifting the terms of what is real. Through this experience, the ephemeral becomes enduring and the existential accessible, opened up like a hidden doorway.

Light prevailing against surrounding darkness inspirits each of my works and offers these deeply, yet briefly felt moments as something worth holding onto: that what is most fleeting is also what we most desire to keep.