Artist Statement
The poetic aspects of pinhole photography are what draw me to it. Although
the pinhole camera is “blind,” because it has no viewfinder or lens, I find that it “sees” in
mysterious ways. The pinhole camera’s “sight” grants infinite depth of field to the object
and images before it, thus allowing us to see the camera’s pinhole vision, which is
characterized by the odd clarity of dreams or memory. Process Statement
Working in my home studio and using only natural light, my exposures often take several hours. I then contact print my images on artists paper using 19th century processes. Often I collage my pinhole images onto antique book boards, incorporating snippets of text and time-stained papers. The resulting “photo object” alludes to the passage of time, and to that private interior library which I believe serves as paradigm for collective and personal memory.

My work is slow, hand-built, and cumulative, rather like the layering of dust or memories over time.