I'm a photographer because I make pictures with a camera. I'm an artist because of the images I choose to make and share. I succeed as an artist when my work speaks on my behalf in my absence: when the abstraction inside me, once purposefully expelled from me, sustains itself despite me. Hopefully in spite of me.
The picture I make is a picture I want to spend time looking at, and I want to look at a picture that draws me in because it puzzles me, or surprises me, or just defies what I think I should think of it; an image that arrests me in its oldness, newness and timelessness at once. I want to be tickled by form, texture, tone, and composition all at the same time. Sometimes I feel like a pictorialist with an axe to grind having infiltrated F.64 undercover.
I was born and raised in the Central Valley of California in a big-little town called Stockton. I demonstrated a knack for the arts by the time I was five and by nine I was enrolled in Aldrich School of Art & Gallery where I studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. After my time as an undergraduate studying art theory, production, and criticism in the Fine Arts program at California Institute of the Arts I discovered a passion for medium format film cameras and fine art photography.
The foundational, intellectual and artistic precepts that inform my work are pluralist, humanist, absurd, and aesthetic.