Pedestrian activity along with investigative process is the point of departure from which my work begins---it is the genesis of my visual voice.

My work starts with candid photography captured in large part on foot as a means of search and acquisition for common images and for the information they carry. I have long been interested in the quotidian passage of activity and its significance in the fabric of daily living. The people, places and objects I examine often appear as unremarkable and living subjects are routinely unknown to me. However, there is a sense of prevailing character in the photos that keeps me interested beyond a first impression. The vernacular of each image is engaging and as reticent hosts and clue-makers the subjects of those photos give definition to my work. The images disclose bits of personal information that I consider with regard as unexpected offerings in the form of feedback, generous and unwitting descriptors of presence, of movement, the remnants of relationships and the fleeting suggestion of momento mori being (here) and having been (there).

The tapestry-like structures I make can be described as idiosyncratic portraits. They are compiled from photo fragments dependent upon strategic reorganization, re-contextualization and repetition of the reduced sized images that make up each piece. The resulting imagery transitions and resonates an underlying abstraction layered within pattern, color, texture and topographic strata.

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