All my life I have been more intrigued by images than words. I would page through National Geographics and absorb the stories through the photographs and hardly read a word. So powerful were images that I could not touch a close up image of a trantula and I held my breath while paging through stories about deep sea creatures.
I took my first photography class as a senior in high school and loved it. I went on to art school and majored in photography, learning the technical side of taking and printing and exhibiting photographs just before the advent of digital photography.
“The Longer the Silence” is my BFA photography exhibit at California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC). Below are the 18 images I chose to print in large format (20″ x 24″ and 20″ x 30″) color as well as my original Artist Statement for the show. I have continued photographing subject matter that I feel expands this body of work and those images I will continue to share on this website.
Artist Statement Dec 1998
The Longer The Silence
I am interested in representing a psychological landscape. In this work I am using images of spaces and elements from the landscape a signifiers for essential human experiences and emotions. the presentation of images in this work has been influenced by the ambiguous relationships of words and images common in contemporary poetic writing. Working within the mode of metaphor I allow intuition to determine what scenes and spaces I need images of and how each photograph communicates with the others.
