"The artist...speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives."

Susan Sontag in her essay, On Photography, writes…"virtually every important photographer right up to the present has written manisfestoes and credos expounding photography’s moral and aesthetic mission. And photographers give the most contradictory accounts of what kind of knowledge they possess and what kind of art they practice."

I couldn’t agree more. I have no specific idea what kind of art, if any, I practice or knowledge I possess that is relevant to my work. I have no ideal mission, except to satisfy myself. If my work gives others a certain pleasure, that’s an added and grateful compensation.

The camera simply captures through my eyes, images that attract me. Because the attractions are rooted in life experience, it would be as difficult to enumerate and explain them as it would be to credit all the photographers who’ve influenced the ways I look through a camera lens and process what the camera records.

At times the images just happen to be there; where I am at a given moment. Other times I find them in places of my choice, where I look for them. They have no historical or journalistic significance, except perhaps to me, in an abstract way which I’m certain if revealed, would only diminish a viewer’s pleasure in them.