“From its earliest days [photography] seemed to be as much about revealing the invisible as documenting the visible.”

                                                             —Philip Ball, Invisible

Photographic technology developed in a historical entanglement with spirituality, stage magic, industrialization, and psychology. Though my photographs are of familiar natural elements—cotton, tulip, daylily—they are a continuation of the human inquisitiveness that led to the discovery of photography, and an exploration of the unseen to which we return again and again seeking understanding of our individual significance.

My process interlaces discovery with seeing. I approach a subject through the macro lens intending to push beyond the surface, where light, line, and color reveal the hidden energy of a moment, of a flower stem or swath of cotton, rather than a literal representation. This micro detail delivers the painterly, abstract effect of the image and continues to push the boundaries and expectations of ‘the photograph’.

All images are printed on aluminum sheets at large scale, ranging from 24 x 36 inches to 30 x 45 inches.