STATEMENT

There is nothing I enjoy more than finding beautiful moments in my peripheral vision. I remember gazing through an empty glass, gazing through the ice and looking at the dirty diner and my companion as with new eyes, for the ice refracted everything as though my vision had suddenly kaleidoscope'd and I marveled at it for a while, wishing I had my camera with me, wishing that I could take a picture of the ice.

I like to turn photographs upside down and see the photographs as they are - as a composition of lines and shapes, forms and colors: movement. I am most drawn to abstract photographs that show me something new, that allow me the ability to see them for what they could be rather than what they are. It's not that I don't enjoy taking portraits of people - I do and I take many portraits, people are beautiful - but you can't turn a person upside down and see them in the same new light that you might appreciate were it an abstract.

Having said all of this, it's really just about having fun for me. There's nothing I enjoy doing more than taking pictures. Sadly, I'm so poor that having just a roll of film is an extreme luxury for me - one I can't even afford to process and see prints of. So I don't take pictures very often. My dream is to afford enough film where I'm able to take a hundred photographs a day, and to have a darkroom to inhale chemicals in.

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