Artist Statement

As a general theme I am interested in patterns of growth and I have always found it natural to look at things from a close perspective. I realize that by cropping my subjects closely I am not only becoming intimate with them, I am also abstracting them. By this treatment, familiar subjects become unrecognizable and require new investigation. The shape-shifting ambiguity made possible by the photographic lens resonates with my general sense of a world unseen by the naked eye, a world of possibilities.

Over the past months I have been stacking things and taking photographs of the various accumulations. The photographs catalog documents that surround me: books, papers, magazines, journals, sketchpads and photographs. Each stack represents something different - a passage of time, a collection, a history. The result is a series of lines, each representing a moment, a sedimentary record of growth.