Photography is a way of exploring my world and myself. In these images I have made use of the unexpected and uncontrolled optics of a vintage camera to explore my landscape. I'm drawn to the lush, exotic and mythical environment I live in, its promise and mystery.

The sensuous quality of the prints, the use of intense and over-saturated color combined with the deliberate disorientation of the viewpoint creates a world of images that are intimate, private moments.

One of the real challenges in working with Landscape is how to make it new and relevant in this post-Post-Modern era. Exploring our relationship to the environment is still an important and vital photographic subject and its history cannot be ignored.

With little or no interest in the "perfect" landscape and a strong desire to include the aesthetic as part of my work, I have approached this subject from a more intimate and subjective viewpoint. My use of obscure optics is fueled by a desire to make obvious the falsity of the photographic image. There is no doubt when one views these images that they are distortions and not mere representation.

I am interested in stretching, perhaps even severing, the traditional photographic relationship between subject and photograph, thereby creating an image that has its own sense of integrity and place beyond the real. That is one of the purposes of art. If the everyday and the ordinary are actually extraordinary, then we're never really sure what we're seeing.

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