Wherever I walk, I see paintings, collages, and sculpture in plain view: everyday patterns that become my photographs. When a visual rhythm arrives – like an emotional charge – I make my image, attempting to create art from art. Call and response: shadow, light, space, color and line.

As in the past, my new abstract images represent straightforward facts on one hand, and enigmas on the other. At times these images can inspire the opposite of the shock of recognition—the shock of the unrecognizable. In other areas they can suggest a contextual mystery. But I shoot and present the real world, unposed and unstaged. Although digitally captured, the content of the images is not manipulated.

In this era of highly conceptual art (and I have work in that category as well), and for much of my art I agree with Mexican photographer Manual Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002) who said, “When one takes a photograph, one doesn’t think about saying anything in particular. One doesn’t think about making a statement but rather of creating something visual which can later bear a meaning that one didn’t intend to transmit – depending upon the viewer’s interpretation but not necessarily on the photographer’s.”

Finally, my influences include Randy Newman, Mark Twain, René Magritte, Margaret Atwood, David Hockney, William Trevor, Jeanne Gang, Rod Serling, Michael Josephson, Paul Simon, Emily Dickinson, Georgia O’Keeffe, but most importantly the images that present themselves to me in the world.