Wherever I travel, be it a wild or settled place, I find fundamental archetypal presences in the land. As a photographer and video artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, my practice seeks to reveal this in the physical landscape, informed by my reading of history, ecology, philosophy, and archetypal psychology. Questions arise when I encounter space in an intimate way.

Is beauty necessary? A numinous beauty inhabits the vast forests and deserts of the American West. There, I feel most fundamentally at home, amid the ever-varied and receding horizon, shifting light, alone with clouds or clear blue sky. In the silence that prevails I can hear myself think. What is necessary for our relationship to the endangered natural world are images that honor the intimate individual realities of specific places.

Mindful seeing can call forth feelings of awe, rapture, or foreboding without the overblown, oversaturated and thus falsified pictures common to commercial landscape photography. As an artist deeply committed to finding, documenting, and sharing knowledge of fragile and remote places, my practice includes using my work in presentations for communities in both in person and online settings as well as in traditional gallery installations.