Artist Statement
Photography is for me a language. A language that for me communicates the Gestalt[framing/placing] where I find poetic truth in the world sets itself up and brings itself forth.
Dasein, Duende, and Noumena are three qualities for me that are essential to what I feel are accurate renditions of my poetic experience of the world. These works, specifically as prints experienced on walls in a space that for me can serve as a meditation on these methodologies of saying, speak to my existential-phenomenological experience of the 'World.'
I search to, with these images, to express some of the myriad forms/shapes the human condition manifests itself to me within the world:Within the sphere of the Open, the Clearing, a standing within, a Being-There[Dasein]…where man dwells...to establish a vocabulary of thinking; to illuminate some corner of the sublime, to convey mood, to memorialize, to speak poetically.
Process Statement
I have been influenced visually by Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Gene Smith, Thomas Demand, Harry Callahan, El Lissitsky, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Prud'hon, Rubens, Caravaggio, Phillip Lorca Di Corcia, Bruce Davidson, Robert Heinecken, Marco Breur.
My primary source, however, for consideration in making choices in life on what to pay attention to with my heart and will comes from the works of; Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Soren Kierkegaard, David Foster Wallace, Don Delillo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walter Benjamin, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Thomas Merton-To name a few.
