About

Thoughts. Picasso said art is not chaste. Chaste or chased, getting to art with a capital A is such hard work. With
a real world that can be so visually amazing, entertaining, frightening, depressing, or inspiring why do we need to make and
look at replicas of it on paper? Abelardo Morell paraphrasing Plato suggests we best understand the nature of things when
looking at them indirectly. The shadow of some flowers on a sidewalk. A reflection in a store window. The latent image captured
in a camera.

I like a lot of photographs made by other photographers. There are shelves full of books by photographers and artists in
our house that I look at all the time. Great pictures are inspiring and help to think about what I am doing. Recently I heard Linda
Connor talk about the value of photographers' books as part of the process of refining personal vision. Wow. Wish me luck.
I am following too many diverse influences and interested in too many things.

For the past nine years, I have been photographing in my backyard and in the general area of the town in which I live, Sherwood,
Oregon. Tableau. Landscapes. I am a member of the local affiliate of The Willamette Valley School of Landscape Photographers.
Does this group really exist? Not in an organized sense. Beauty is in abundance here and the quality of light is positively transporting.
The portfolios The Garden of Enlightenment and Wetlands are examples of what I am doing.

A few months ago I went to New York City. The portfolio Liminal Cognition was started there. The flight paths of airplanes seem to
be returning to pre-9/11 routes. Planes are in the sky when you look up. New York is emerging from the shadow of the atrocity it seems.
None the less the event still haunts us. I came back with a fuzzy concept, something to do with fear and power and planes. The concept is
working itself out. There is a connection to photographs I have made in other interesting parts of the world. It still is a tangled mess of
symbols of empires past and empire today, religious iconography and places, and the graffiti and the beauty of modern existence.
Looking and looking at all these photographs I often find details I unconsciously gathered up; noted by another me.

Other About Stuff:
My photographs are in private collections and the Houston Fine Arts Museum.

Recent Exhibitions:
2010 Flight, curated by David Bram at Vermont Photography Workplace
2010 Carnival, curated by Chris Bennett at New Space Center for Photography
2009 Portraits, curated by Mark Woolley at WORKSOUND Gallery
2009 Photo+Book, juried by Chris Rauschenberg at 23 Sandy Gallery
2008 Shelter, juried by Randy Gragg at 23 Sandy Gallery
2008 Resurrection, juried by Laura Moya at 23 Sandy Gallery
2007 Night Moves, juried by Laura Russell at 23 Sandy Gallery
2006 Vision PDX at Portland City Hall
2006 Chamber Music Northwest Exhibition at Catlin Gabel School
2005 One Foot After Another, curated by Chris Rauschenberg at the Mark Woolley Gallery
2005 Photo Review Annual Competition, juried by David Schonauer

Editorial:
All Music Guide
Boston Globe
Brooklyn Eagle
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
NPR
Oregon Cultural Trust
Oregon Music News

Education:
Bethel College B. A.; History Major/Art Minor

Organizational Affairs:
Blue Sky Gallery Member
Lightbox Gallery Member
Newspace Center for Photography Member
Former member of the Photolucida Board, Treasurer
Photolucida Advisory Board
Photolucida Critical Mass Juror
Portland Art Museum Photography Council Board, Vice-President
William, James & Company, Director