ARTIST’S STATEMENT

b. 1942 Brooklyn, New York

Although I came to photography as art only as a mature person, a childhood curiosity and respect for nature remains.

For me, the cacophony in nature is tamed in the frame of the camera’s viewfinder. The viewfinder presents a two-dimensional reality where the focal length of each lens brings the excitement and perspective of new and different eyes.

With a camera I can see some of the same natural world humans have seen forever—forms, spaces, boundaries and colors. My photography is patient, and it tries to call forth spirits that reside in objects and awaken them in our time.

My path in photography widened from nature to include the man-made world. Here, I observe new colors, textures, and patterns inherent in the man-made materials. I find geometries resulting from the interaction between the man-made world and nature.

And so, with the camera outside or inside the studio, whether the subject is natural or man-made, I delight in finding and interpreting apparent chaos and patterned order, color as form, shadows that continually darken, and that beauty which speaks so eloquently without words, now and from our collective past.