My work manifests as the acceptance or rejection of my problems and concerns, and it depicts the struggle and eventual embracement of my bewilderment with the world around me.  The images I create offer surreal, high contrast representations of my thoughts, memories, fears, and desires, often presented in black and white to replicate the way they are perceived in my mind and to reinforce my ideal of simplicity.
          
            I see myself as having two voices, one that speaks clearly and concisely in a professional manner with unshakable confidence and absolute certainty in what I convey, and the other babbles on indistinctly, experimenting with and forming new words and phrases as it speaks while allowing the method/medium to dominate and dictate the meaning of the piece.  Embracing this dual nature in my work frees me from any limiting factors that would stifle my creativity, for I allow myself to live outside the confines of one singular method and style.  This way, I am free to utilize my full range of acquired technical skills, but also to continue to learn from experimentation and grow through the exploration of the unknown.
 
            The professional in me is absolute and thoughtful, offering flawless and articulated images that follow rigorous standards of production technique and obsessive attention to detail.  This precision exudes the truth of the subject matter as the artist's hands disappear from the work and one begins to perceive my factual and nearly tangible perspective of something real. Conversely, the artist in me seeks to detach from the rigid obligations of the professional, breaking rules for the purpose of subversion of tradition as well as experimentation.  I begin with a medium and immerse myself in its properties while seeking to stretch its limitations, allowing the process to take on an alchemical style.  The aesthetic and concept appear almost magically as the image begins to form, and there are occasions when paper and film and water and ink and chemicals and sound and electricity can be combined in this manner to produce gold.