The photographs presented here are from my ongoing series of diptychs — two equal size images that I digitally place side-by-side to create one unique photograph. Diptychs are often recognized by a space or center line separating two frames. I eliminate that separation to allow my images to merge and flow into each other. It's not one image by itself but the relationship with another that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Coming from a background of building wood constructed sculpture, I often begin my diptychs with photographs of architecture or structures that define and manipulate space or movement through space. I think of my photographs as found objects to juxtapose and combine in unexpected ways to create a new context or scenario that will conjure a depth and variety of open-ended associations. I’m always looking for a combination of images that will capture the attention of viewers and invite them to visually enter and investigate the curious and mysterious space and logic of my photographs.
My photography is ultimately about my belief in the importance of the act of seeing and my enthusiasm for the visual experience.
“ . . . it is less the object at which we look that gives value to our experience, than the intensity with which we look at it.” Pierre Apraxine, eulogy for Sam Wagstaff, 1987