I like to think about time and memory, change and permanence, most of all, patience.   Slowing down is important to me.   The process of photography (though once considered the most immediate of processes), in reality requires a great deal of concentration as well as synchronization of the mind, eye, and heart.

I want my photography to act like a pause; like an intersection between the past and present, between stillness and anticipation.   My work is interpretive rather than documentary.   I am looking for poetry in the familiar (landscape, architecture, interior); for the serene, lyrical, and timelessness of a scene.   My work explores serenity, but often with a hint of tension or mystery.   Sometimes there's a tension in something about to happen; the mind is allowed to wonder, to question.

Parks and formal gardens are the perfect "intimate landscapes".   They are the ideal places to explore the relationship between order and chaos, simplicity and complexity, internal and external.   They have been structured, contained and harmonized for our distraction and enjoyment.   People use them and then leave their energy and memories behind.

For me, the process of photography is about relationship between the exterior and the interior.   In addition to looking intensely at the interior world, photographing encourages self-reflection.   In a sense, it's like emotion.

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