Life’s ambiguities, human behavior, love, loss and longing have become the subject matter for my artwork. The images that result mimic tableau photography. They are realized through my personal successes and failures as an artist, teacher, traveler, twin and lover. Found objects speak to me like the words of a poem. The narratives/stories evolve through an intense engagement with materials, art history, attention to detail and the search for meaningful content. These images are intended to amuse the viewer through open-ended interpretations. Ideas come to me not as tangible thoughts but as ideas and events that happened as the result of unconscious and intuitive reactions.

Working in limited space I position objects like the actors on a stage, with a momentary pause in the action. The camera records this action which seems closer to sculpture and painting than photography. Using only natural sun light, my 35mm camera and found objects, I insert myself into the dialogue created by the objects. The collage techniques coupled with bright contrasting colors make the photographs appear other worldly, yet with elements of realism. The process to create a single image can take up to 3 months from start to finish. The resulting images reveal and conceal ideas that rely on the viewer’s personal experiences for interpretation. Often, the staged objects create a mood, a feeling of expectation that something has just happened—or is about to.