The working theme of my landscapes is to present the viewer with a space that allows and encourages the recovery of our lost psychological relationship with the natural world. I hope by exposing this need the viewer will begin to experience the world as an animate being and respond to it subjectively rather than objectively. A subjective response opens our psyche to a kind of simultaneous healing of the world and ourselves.
I have tried to achieve through photographic means what I see when I am standing in front of a mound or a large stone or underneath a low drifting dark cloud. They are manifestations of that “invisible” space separating/connecting me to the earth and to the space above and below the earth. The overlay of language moving in and out of the landscape further translates this feeling. It is a non-historical, unspoken language that I inscribe on the surface of the print during the development process. I use my camera to record moments of simultaneous truths and co-existing multiple realities and present them in a way that is not frozen but fluid. Pushing the boundaries of photography beyond arresting a single moment in time contradicts the traditional use of the camera. To further evade the static moment, I extend this contradiction in the darkroom with chemical manipulation.
