12 Mar

WHY I PHOTOGRAPH?

Because I cannot believe what I am seeing I can’t accept what I am seeing To see who I am and how I relate to my world Because I am confused fearless resilient afraid and obsessed with people. how we are and are not I’m trying to collect evidence

12 Mar

MEMORY

  Photography stops life and allows us to study, peer at, and examine. It opens up a face, preserves a gesture, the nuance of a glance, or an impossible situation. It’s a time sensitive, ephemeral art form despite what appears to be something concrete. I’m grateful for moments when I am able to connect my […]

12 Mar

“Stop the Capture, Feel the Rapture”

I said this at one of those times I thought I was a genius. Simple, to the point, and you can say it in any order, “Feel the Rapture, Stop the Capture,” it still works! Clever perhaps, but not genius. The point is still why?  Why do we always have to capture? And if we […]

12 Mar

GONE FROM MY SITE, Henry Van Dyke

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side, spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky […]

24 Apr

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

 “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something […]