Art Statemt:

The mountain view from my Catskill home, a favorite painting location of the Hudson River School painters, inspired me to research and then seek out their painting sites and re-­imagine them from a 21st Century perspective.

Using a 4x5 camera with its movable lens, I manipulate the focal plane of the image as a way of simulating contemporary perception. The camera lens calls the viewer to experience the perception of place -­ to soak up its light, its spaces, its history, its potential – and to see it anew. I depict marks of environmental degradation, as well as beholding the area’s the persistent sense of place in need of preserving.

Contemplation expands the moment. The photograph's energy and blur reflects the constant movement of nature and time as moments dissolve into memory.

Walking lets us know the world through the body. Place is not as solid as landscape; a sense filtered through feeling, it is something interior and mutable.

What you directly experience in a landscape and in a photograph often opens your engagement beyond the delineation of things.

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