Artist Statement
My creative process is very simple. I strive to record the subtle, interconnected web of energy that makes up what we call the world. For me, beauty, which permeates everything around us, appears in its most sublime state when form, color, pattern and texture are all in harmony. In the same way as all “objects” in this world are fundamentally impermanent, and essentially arbitrary, partitions of an otherwise continuous, unfragmented whole, I view photography as an almost mystical process whereby this illusion of fragmentation is momentarily lifted and the underlying essence of the universe revealed. To “see” the whole, one must first learn to see “parts” as mere illusions.
In simplest terms, I take pictures of what calms my soul. There may be other, more descriptive or poetic words that may be used to define the “pattern” that connects my images, but the simplest meta-pattern is this: I take snapshots of moments in time and space in which a peace washes gently over me, and during which I sense a deep interconnectedness between my soul and the world.
Not Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment,” but rather a Sudden Stillness
Process Statement
Digital capture, minimal processing (limited to digital equivalents of traditional analog darkroom techniques). Prints using 100 % acid-free cotton paper (Epson’s Ultra-Smooth fine-art paper and Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper), and archival pigment-based ink.
I am, by training and profession, a physicist, specializing in nonlinear dynamics and complex adaptive systems (with a PhD in theoretical physics). However, by temperament and inner muse, I am a photographer, and have been one for far longer than my PhD gives me any right to claim an ownership by physics. Photography became a life-long pursuit for me the instant my parents gave me a Polaroid instamatic camera for my 10th birthday. I have been studying the mysterious relationship between inner experiences and outer realities ever since.
Recent activity
Group juried exhibit, In the Zone: Black & White, 1650 Gallery, September 2013
Cover Image, South Poetry Review, Volume 50, Issue 2, 2013
Group juried exhibit, Up Close and Personal exhibition, 1650 Gallery, April 2013
Cover Image, South Poetry Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, 2012
Gallery Annex ("Simplicity"), Lines: Walked and Crossed, Vermont Photography Workplace
B&W Magazine, Animals and Portraiture Special Issue, #95 (Fall 2012)
Featured image, BuddhaDharma (page 34, Fall 2012 issue)
Finalist, Photographer's Forum's 32nd Annual Spring Photography Contest
Gallery Annex ("Synesthesia"), Abstract Expressions Contest, Vermont Photography Workplace
Featured image (Poster), Difference and Hermeneutics: Comparative Approaches to the Premodern World, Conference, Boston University, April 2012
Spotlight, Portfolio Contest Winner, 2011, B&W Magazine, (Issue 87, December 2011)
Invited speaker, Morrison House Talks, sponsored by Alexandria Torpedo Factory Art Center, Aug 2011 ("Photography, Physics, and Complexity: Strange Bedfellows or a New Aesthetic? ")
12 print exhibit, Warehouse Art Gallery, Luray VA
"As Above, So Below: A Harmony of Contrasts" Portfolio (55 images)
Lenswork, Print and DVD Extended Edition (Issue #95, July/August 2011)
Finalist, 2010 B&W Spider Awards (Nature category)
"Physics, Tao, and Photography" (Invited presentation, Churchville Photography Club, Churchville, PA; June 2011)
Group exhibit, Black & White Photography, Vermont Photography Workplace / Photoplace Gallery (April/May 2011)
Black and White Workshop (Invited presentation, Belnavis Arts Gallery, Springfield, VA; Feb 2011)
Cover photo of music album, 16:9, Stuart Sweeney (Oomff, Corby, Northants, UK)
Group exhibit, (ROHO Gallery, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, Feb/March 2011)
Juried on-line exhibit (6 photos, F-Stop Magazine, Abstraction, Issue #45, Feb 2011)
Merit Awards (Animals & Pattern/Texture), Black & White Magazine’s Single Image Contest 2011
(Special Issue #80, Pages 30 & 220, Feb 2011)
Group exhibit, Your Best Shot, ROHO Gallery Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH (Nov-Dec 2010)
Belnavis Art Gallery, Small Works Exhibit, West Springfield, Virginia (Oct-Dec 2010)
Group exhibit, Wide-Awake Dreaming, Vermont Photography Workplace / Photoplace Gallery (Nov 2010)
Group exhibit, Abstraction, Vermont Photography Workplace / Photoplace Gallery (Oct 2010)
Image selected for front cover of book, Body of Work, Edgecliff Press, 2010
Group exhibit, Anything Goes, ROHO Gallery Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH (2010)
Solo show, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Market Street Bar & Grill, Town Center, Reston, VA (2010)
Invited presentation, Silver Spring Camera Club (Jan 2010)
"World Within Worlds," Group Exhibit, American Center for Physics, College Park, MD (2010)
First Prize, "Body of Work" group exhibit, ROHO Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2009
Finalist, 2009 B&W Spider Awards (Architecture category)
Cover photo of book, Inconceivable Wilson, by J.A. Tyler (Scrambler Books, Publisher)
"Ring o'Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland" images featured, Elizabeth Avedon Blog, 17 Dec 2009
Finalist (Abstract Category) World Wide Photography Gala Awards, 2009
Featured photographer, The Online Photographer Blog (Mike Johnston)
Featured photographer, 2010 wall calendar and datebook, Change Your Mind, Change Your Life, by Dwyane Dyer (Amber Lotus Publishing)
Group Exhibit, WPA Art Night (Hickok Cole Architects, Wash, DC, Juried, 2009)
Featured Image (Book), Your Best Shot, Edgecliff Press, 2009
Featured artist, Northern Virginia Magazine, August 2009
Merit Award, ROHO Gallery Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2009
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