I see the world in color. The relationship between colors and the varying qualities of light fascinate me and the various projects that interest me have this in common. I strive to make my images memorable, not only in the medium of photography, but indelible in my own memory. They are my life-long link to the world and I hope will sustain others as they have and will sustain me.
This series places human development in the context of the natural world. I want to show, without sermonizing, how man has adapted and adapted to the world around him. I want to deal with the form and texture of this engagement with the land and how each has shaped each other in various cultures through time. From my own West Texas community of Abilene to the wider world, people have been sensitive to protecting the environment and ignorant of it. They have used it to sustain themselves with agriculture or extractive industries or to, in a philisophical sense, sustain themselves spiritually with the beauty of the landscape in parks or the positioning of their homes. I leave it to the viewer to make the moral and political decisions my vision might suggest. |