Artist Statement

This portfolio explores and creates drama by exemplifying the texture, tension, movement, and line that describes each subject. I use lighting, camera angle and framing to accomplish this. Throughout the series of images organic line emerges whether the subject is a natural form or one that has been created and reflects nature’s essential design. Tension and movement are created in the composition of elements often by focusing on parts of an object rather than the whole. The angle of light exemplifies texture, sometimes smooth and shiny, soft and ethereal or bold and prominent. The portfolio is intended to create a cycle of visual understanding between me, the subject, and the viewer.

We tend to think of color as fixed, time as calculated and shapes as solid, but all can be manipulated to change the experience of the audience. This is the essence of fine art photography. Color and light change our perception of form, time and movement, and thereby altering how they interact with each other and on the different surfaces of the subject. The manipulation of any of the three, will affect the other two. These changes in visual rhetoric affect the intent of the image, the visual experience of the viewer, and the experience of the photographer.