“Ordered Kingdoms”

I am drawn to nature within a still life context as it gives me complete control over my subject, and the power to build an environment of my choosing from a totally empty space. In exploring the small, quiet and often overlooked, I embrace the beauty of the commonplace, while indulging my interests in collecting the curious.

The simplicity and elegance of line in architectural and mechanical drawings give me a map in which to begin. Though they serve as functional tools, they are conceived as timeless and imaginary places. I employ these graphics as a system of visual pulleys, playing off a subject that exists in an environment that is both recognizable and enigmatic.

The dramatic formality of line and light; the tension of shape and pattern are my subjective tools for creative expression. Photography allows me the freedom to create my own world, through light and shadow, of captive souvenirs in an alternate and often playful context. Recognizing that only through a suspended state is the natural world controlled.