Artist Statement

It has been said that I paint with light, and while I enjoy this analogy to “real” artists, my work is more of an investigation into light moving through space over a span of time. It is a truthful representation of an aestheticised conscious action, which has been transfixed on photographic film. The work is an elapsed span of time existing in a single view. Through this presentation of the passage of time, I am defining the concept of the “Transitory Moment.”

My work consists of time-lapse photographs presented as backlit transparencies. My imagery is a mix between abstract colorful forms and figurative elements. All of my photographs are self-portraits and function as documentations of my “performances” with varied light sources in a space. The work is presented in various sizes of light boxes, from small-scale sixteen by twenty inch and large-scale forty by fifty inch. Most of my photographs are shot on four by five transparencies and Polaroids, but some are shot with a digital single lese reflex camera. All of my photographs are shot straight, meaning that there is no digital manipulation.

Art is the process of turning the ethereal into something tangible, not only the finished product, the piece on the wall. True art is experienced by the art maker during the art making process. It is the process of thinking, of creating. It is the trial and error, the success, and the failure. The work that is produced by the art maker is simply a relic of the art making process. Art is the journey, not the destination.

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