Visual Art

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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go
out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” - Bruce Lee

A weekend at New York Martial Arts Academy, Brooklyn, during the Sifu Chris Kent Seminar

Photography was that first tool of self expression that overtook me with its undefinable power to transform and cleanse the lens of my internal perception. It is a tool that can both refine or reinforce, depending on how it is used. If used in what I believe to be its higher purpose, photography can help you feel more fully grounded in the life you’re living, or even free yourself from your present reality, if that is what saves your soul in the short term. For me, photography helps me to see more clearly - not externally, but internally. The act of photographing, allowing me to re-see what I thought I knew, helps me to feel more involved and at one with the life around and within me. It is very easy to detach so intensely that the very experience of human-ness feels foreign, and while I find that helpful when clearing my mind and connecting to that higher spirit, it is not a state I wish to constantly exist through. In day to day life, I want to feel everything, to feel embedded into the very fabric of life that is all around and within me, to find no gap or separation between the seer and the seen.

Veiled by Clarity; Confused Conduit; To Be A Mirror of Eternal Selves

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Veiled by Clarity; Confused Conduit; To Be A Mirror of Eternal Selves (Self-Portraits), 2022

Ordinary Enlightenment

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All of my art is made from a space of love for the everyday - for sights and moments that often go unnoticed and under appreciated. These moments, predominantly of natural light, do not call out for attention, but are perfectly enlightened in their own presence - wishing neither to be noticed or to become more beautiful. These moments are perfectly themselves, and each time I witness them, it feels like a gift: I am peering into a realm accessible to all but entered by few. These moments are my ephemeral and ineffable gurus.

“The luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism & disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful.” - Nick Cave

Light Throughout the History of Photography

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Instead of writing today, I want to post a few of my favorite images that capture moments of natural light made throughout the history of photography.

From left to right, top to bottom:

  1. Abstraction, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, 1916, Paul Strand.

  2. From the series Equivalents, 1929, Alfred Stieglitz.

  3. Untitled, b. 1946, Frank Dituri.

  4. Windowsill Daydreaming- Rochester, New York, 1958, Minor White.

  5. ... and of time (Untitled 00.4), 2000, Uta Barth.

  6. Colors of Shadow C1022, 2006, Hiroshi Sugimoto.

  7. West Concord, Massachusetts, 2008, Nicholas Nixon.