I create art answering to a desire for the catharsis of a continual inner desire to express an ongoing compulsion. It comes from within.
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Photography. I work with pinhole cameras, as I find their imagery both beautiful and mysterious. I also use a 4x5 lens camera for landscapes. Some of these images - especially the pinhole images, are suited to alternative processes, in this case Cyanotype. I also print digitally using archival materials. Working digitally gives me much more control over the images. I have no space for a full darkroom, so I make the best of what I do have.
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration from inside myself. I have no particular genre of subject matter. I am guided by an inner urge to express something timeless, unmoving in unoccupied space.
What would you do with $25,000?I would pay off debt incurred by my creative efforts, and fund expansion of same.
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