Selection of photographs meant to serve as studies for future paintings.  Shot in July 2007 immediately after returning from the hospital and an emergency appendectomy.  I wanted to shoot a series of pictures of many small areas in my home, mostly corner spaces.  I wanted to symbolically represent myself through the way personal belongings were arranged in my home, not the way magazines and advertisements illustrate a home, but the corners, the hidden spaces to a dwelling.  These are an odd collection of vignettes, a unique play on still life as a genre of painting.

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Selection of photographs of my adopted home - Seattle, Washington (downtown).  I really enjoy the symmetry of the buildings, the roads, the infrastructure of large cities, all the man-made stuff meant to substitute for nature.  There’s something very soothing and beautiful about the geometry of cities.  For these photographs, I wanted to show this beauty in Seattle’s architecture and people inhabiting the space within this ersatz civilization.  I wanted to show the largeness of the city environment dwarfing its inhabitants.  We look back on the Egyptian pyramids, or the Mayans or Aztecs, with fascination and awe, yet the structures in our civilization are so far advanced from the marvel of past civilizations.  This advancement in design, technology and architecture presents compelling evidence that humanity has evolved a great deal since the time of the Pharoahs, but has it truly? Despite the advancement in the area of architecture, human beings are more frail then ever before, more vulnerable to nature.  This is evident when I see people in the photographs, dwarfed and seemingly oblivious to the majesty of their own creations.

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