Photography – Seattle

My work, Abstract Expressionism Photography, represents the art I see in ordinary things, in things others might think ruined or in disrepair. I photograph a small section of something, bringing out textures, exposing its depth, and by taking it out of the context in which it exists, I reveal something entirely unseen before. Everything is interconnected. Everything is in constant motion. Everything is temporary. What one calls destruction, another considers simply as rearranging of materials. We choose how we feel by the degree of our attachment to any given thing or circumstance. Sorrow, joy, anxiety, excitement, exuberance, even anger, all have but a single purpose; to increase our capacity to feel, to understand, to love, to expand. Therefore, whatever one can imagine, exists! What attracts me is that which astonishes me or makes me laugh. I see the dance of life all around me, in scratches, scrapes, dents, and smudges, in rust, decay and things tossed aside. Multiple, random encounters, by various forces unknown to each other, coming together, to create an entirely independent, interdimensional, fanciful story, populated with creatures, characters and other beings. I wander into imagination, expanding my capacity to understand; connecting me emotionally to something I remember, desire to experience or strive to be. ​ The work intends to uplift, stimulate thought, engage imagination, to cause expansion in one’s way of seeing, producing a feeling such as being in a state of daydreams. After all, nothing is as we remember it, but as we choose to see it. We have never been freer or more loved or more anything (or less anything) than we are right now in accordance with our choices about it.