“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer…” - unknown
I have many reasons for making art. It allows me to explore my creativity, use the mind in a stimulating way, and communicate an idea I have to a larger audience. Furthermore, if I am successful, I can instigate the audience to think in a new way, cause them to question things, or provoke them to see something from a different perspective.
My art comes out of a place of optimism, confusion, ironies, paradoxes, contradictions found in nature, impossible realities, and things that are mundane but beautiful. I am interested in exploring the concept of time, memories, and symbolism. I like making things have a meaning or a reason for being composed a certain way. One of my favorite things to think about, or my favorite philosophies is when you think its all over and have given up hope, except one little ounce you have, and then something miraculous happens. I really like to explore that with my art, and capture those moments.
There are two different sides to my photography. One part of me loves to photograph juxtapositions that I find outside, nature, landscapes, skies, and trees. I become inspired to make work by seeing and observing. That part of me does not think about what I photograph. I do not set anything up in a studio. I do not set up a pre-planned message or meaning that I want to express to the viewer. Instead, I go outside with no specific idea, and I let the idea find me. The other part of me likes to plan out a very dramatic photo-shoot, with a set, a model, and an imaginative idea. If I am confused about an idea that’s been floating around my head, I’ll try to somehow solve that question within my art. It’s like a puzzle I have to figure out. Photography helps me realize that it’s okay not to have the answer to everything all the time, and sometimes the answer IS the question.
I have many reasons for making art. It allows me to explore my creativity, use the mind in a stimulating way, and communicate an idea I have to a larger audience. Furthermore, if I am successful, I can instigate the audience to think in a new way, cause them to question things, or provoke them to see something from a different perspective.
My art comes out of a place of optimism, confusion, ironies, paradoxes, contradictions found in nature, impossible realities, and things that are mundane but beautiful. I am interested in exploring the concept of time, memories, and symbolism. I like making things have a meaning or a reason for being composed a certain way. One of my favorite things to think about, or my favorite philosophies is when you think its all over and have given up hope, except one little ounce you have, and then something miraculous happens. I really like to explore that with my art, and capture those moments.
There are two different sides to my photography. One part of me loves to photograph juxtapositions that I find outside, nature, landscapes, skies, and trees. I become inspired to make work by seeing and observing. That part of me does not think about what I photograph. I do not set anything up in a studio. I do not set up a pre-planned message or meaning that I want to express to the viewer. Instead, I go outside with no specific idea, and I let the idea find me. The other part of me likes to plan out a very dramatic photo-shoot, with a set, a model, and an imaginative idea. If I am confused about an idea that’s been floating around my head, I’ll try to somehow solve that question within my art. It’s like a puzzle I have to figure out. Photography helps me realize that it’s okay not to have the answer to everything all the time, and sometimes the answer IS the question.
