It seems impossible to escape forms in the abstract. Nothing is empty in the whole of creation; even emptiness bubbles with possibilities. Raw materials here consist of flowers, foliage, and the branching structure of a landscape pistachio tree. You can deconstruct appearance — break things down into tiny pieces — and you end up with […]

Does this seem a sacrilege? Photographs were once like smoke or like footprints — generating a reliable sign, the source of which cannot be mistaken. Footprints mean a human or humans passed that way. There is no mystery in smoke; it transcribes flame. Our image signifies itself first — a heresy — then climbs beyond […]

An animal form emerged from the boulder during the processing of this photograph — something exotic, primordial, an inhabitant of an ancient ocean perhaps. Or it might be one of countless mineral abstractions I have seen, some of which seem to morph into lifelike shapes.