"Beauty is the harvest of presence, the evanescent moment of seeing or hearing on the outside what already lives far inside us; the eyes, the ears or the imagination suddenly become a bridge between the here and the there, between then and now, between the inside and the outside; beauty is the conversation between what we think is happening in the world and what is just about to occur far inside us. Beauty is an achieved state of both deep attention and self-forgetting; the self forgetting of seeing, hearing, smelling or touching that erases our separation, our distance, our fear of the other. Beauty invites us, through entrancement, to that fearful, frontier between what we think makes us; and what we think makes the world. 

 

Beauty especially occurs in the meeting of time with the timeless; the passing moment framed by what has happened and what is about to occur, the scattering of the first spring apple blossom, the turning, spiraling flight of a curled leaf in the falling light; the smoothing of white sun-filled sheets by careful hands setting them to air on a line, the broad expanse of cotton filled by the breeze only for a moment, the sheets sailing on into dryness, billowing toward a future that is always beckoning, always just beyond us. Beauty is the harvest of presence."     -- David Whyte

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Adventurer and connector by nature, I use my camera to gain entry into places and lives, where I listen intently, to capture and reflect the beauty found in fractions of this human experience. 

 

A powerful intuition leads me sometimes to dim and less-traveled quarters - where I discover joy and love. I invite those I find there to see themselves, and to be seen. Underserved high-schoolers, inmates, indigenous people at the blank edges of the map — sharing the faces and spaces of the humans beneath these labels.

 

My hope is to connect viewers to people and experiences with whom they would not otherwise identify and, in doing so, help them witness and experience deeper and unknown parts of themselves. I dwell in the conversation between what we think is happening outside in the world and what is just about to occur far inside us.

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