My focus is creating or reenacting moments that suggest the supernatural among us. Incredible peace and stillness have come over me even in the darkest of hours when I was left a quadriplegic by a rare spinal cord disorder. These images are an attempt to capture those events or relate the state of being that embodies them. Art is a shared experience, so at some level I hope to relate to the human condition motivated by a sense of need for the transcendent.
The majority of my photographs are composed in camera without Photoshop. They are not photo composites. I shoot from two to eight exposures on a single frame of 120 film using either an 80mm lens, handmade pinhole, or combination of both. These combinations are like a meditation in that I never see the final image until the film is processed.
In the meantime, I consider color, shape and form as I overlap exposures. Unlike a regular camera, you cannot look through the lens of a pinhole because it is a camera without a lens. I sometimes use masks to cover portions of the 80mm lens as I juxtapose images in relation to one another in multiple exposures. The film negative allows me to shoot at different locations on different days as I combine images, unlike a digital camera.
I use this process to facilitate meditative or transcendent images that look familiar but are strange to the known or real world.