The photo-based work represented here is the synthesis of my background in painting and photography. Collectivley, the work is a visual narrative of multiple realities/images with a focus on the human figure, embedded in sculptural, architectural, or natural imagery.

My recent work has been inspired by Greco - Roman antiquities, as well as the sculptures, paintings and architecture they have inspired. Available to look at today are often ruins and broken fragments experienced out of spiritual context separated from their bodies and original settings. Nevertheless, I am drawn to photograph these works of art, mesmerized by a spirit, beauty and energy they still retain. In my photographs a muse, an architectural ruin, a god or goddess is juxtaposed with a contemporary model, dancer or child.

A photograph of the body may show us what we fear and desire; a photograph of a statue may represent the things we dream of, envy or do not understand. Our perceptions, our interactions between nature, culture and each other, are a force in my art, especially as they relate to gender and sexuality. As subjects I use friends, models and dancers. There is intentional staging and use of negative space for subsequent layering of other images. There are often surprises. I frequently shoot long exposures in the dark resulting in a blurred image giving a sense of dreamlike motion. Surreal, allegorical, painterly images emerge probing the psychological, but also embody real human needs and experiences.

The dialogue: the visual interplay between a momentary illusion, a chimera or a fantasy captures the human spirit and the fragile relationship of the past to the present, manifesting the ephemeral qualities of beauty, pathos, romance, decay, denial and loss

Archival images are printed in two size editions using pigmented inks on Hahnmuhle rag paper and are available matted and /or framed. Information upon request.