“The beauty of the earth is the first beauty. Millions of years before us the earth lived in wild elegance. Landscape is the first-born of creation.”
John O’Donohue – Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

Wherever I travel, be it a wild or settled place, I find fundamental archetypal presences in the land, “… forms and rhythms shared between human consciousness and the natural world.” (Jeffrey Gellicoe, The Landscape of Man, 1975)  As a photographer and video artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, my practice seeks to reveal this 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? Why the desert? A numinous beauty inhabits the vast 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. The silence that prevails lets me hear myself think. For me, as for poet and priest John O’Donohue, “Landscape is the first born of creation.” What is necessary to our endangered natural world are images that honor the intimate individual realities of specific places. Truth can call forth feelings of awe, rapture, or foreboding without the overblown, oversaturated and therefore 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.