ARTIST STATEMENT

The Buddhist conception of the Universe is illustrated as “Indra’s Net”—an endless net expanding in all directions, through all dimensions. At each thread’s intersection lies a single jewel. Each jewel holds a perfect, infinitely receding reflection of all other jewels and the net itself. This metaphor describes all existence as interpenetrating, all phenomena as interdependent, and defines perfection as an attribute of emptiness.    

I see this image in natural phenomena, in time and light, in persistent or recurring processes, in emergence, metamorphosis and fruition. My series Indra’s Net consists of discrete groups (and sequences) of images that visually represent these abstract concepts. 

PROCESS & EDITION INFORMATION: 

The images for Indra’s Net are captured using a variety of cameras from pinhole to plastic to DSLR, as well as using camera-less means. Some derive from scanned negatives or traditional darkroom photograms. Through digital darkroom processes, they are printed or transferred to fine art papers using archival pigment inks. These processes allow me to print with a range of archival materials through which I control fine detail, tint, tone and texture, producing images perfectly representative of my conceptual and aesthetic vision.  

(IM)PERFECT CIRCLES is a group of 8 diptychs demonstrating the nature of gestural purity. Inside each of these factory-discarded glass plates there is a minute imperfection that was identified, circled and stamped out. The glass plates were buried along with other factory refuse. As I unearthed them I realized that time and weather had rendered the original imperfections imperceptible, transforming the circles themselves into the locus for contemplation. Viewed side-by-side, the negatives and their positives coalesce, referring to the dichotomy between perfection and perception.      

Shown and Sold as Diptychs, 

Large Edition:  24” x 24” 

Small Edition:  12” x 12”

CAPILLARITY is a group of 8 images documenting the interaction between naturally incongruous elements—salt, water and oil. These simple scenes demonstrate something larger—that when any phenomena come into contact they react to and act upon one another, and in so doing they define and are defined by one another.  

Large Edition:  24” x 24” 

Small Edition:  12” x 12”