Artist Statement

My photographic practice is experimental. I draw inspiration for projects from many places, but more common than not there is a reference to photography itself within the works or the processes. I spend a good deal of time thinking about what photography is and let that dialogue lead me to ideas of what it could be. Light, contingency, relativity, time and spatial relations have come to the forefront as subjects in much of my work. I plan my projects extensively, but treat them as experiments, a neverending series of tests. Each time I shoot, the results influence the next step. I often like to leave a lot of space for accidents to happen and am most satisfied with the work when it takes on a life of its own. I want to make photographs that surprise me, that teach me something, that seem a little like I didn't even make them despite the effort. I want to make photographs that compel one to keep looking. This work was constructed in camera onto one piece of film. Pong Field is an outtake from a series where I dropped 512 ping pong balls from a ledge in studio—each sheet of film received additional exposures exponentially, double and half.