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My work is about permanence, change, loss and our futile attempt to stop time, to be still, to hold on to things that can’t be kept. The images and references are primarily of subtle but emotionally charged places - spaces we can imagine knowing well, homes or landscapes where we might have spent time or driven by countless times, or perhaps simply flown over while on our way somewhere else. They are generic and blurry, making them familiar and vague at the same time, like fading memories that both comfort us and leave us lonely. The places we’re intimate with literally ground us on this earth and place us with a sense of stability in a terribly chaotic world. The French philosopher, Bachelard, wrote that “a house is a tool with which to confront the cosmos. It helps us to say, ‘I am an inhabitant of this world, in spite of the world.’” And just as a photograph is proof, a house is also proof; physical proof that we were there. But now we are here, and the image on paper that is a photograph may help us to remember, but it can never bring us back. An attempt to save an experience by photographing the evidence is as futile as trying to stop time. I try to convey that sense of “then and now” with my work. In contrast to the marks we make on the world–by building structures and organizing the landscape–and in contrast to the frozen photographs which we treasure though they are simply illusions, our lives are, for better or for worse, in constant and unstoppable forward motion.
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