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Looking through the viewfinder is a bit like two-dimensional origami.

Experience is the conveyance by which we enter an image. Often it provides illumination and context as well. Frequently, however, it supplies neither and therein lies the adventure.

As an image maker you should enjoy the precision of being less than precise.

Abstractions are simply maps which describe spaces you may not have visited yet.

Variation is substance.

My work and I have no interest in ‘challenging aesthetic boundaries’, primarily because we don’t believe in them in the first place.

Unlike sports and politics, art is not a competitive endeavor, despite our personal proclivities. It isn’t about winning. It’s about making.

Sometimes the environment will suggest. Sometimes it will insist.

Two contradictory value theories could both be correct, even complementary, in the same sense that two planets, given similar physics, might occupy the same orbit.

If you start to draw, and know little of drawing, you might begin by roughing in the edges of the subject. If you start to draw, and know something of drawing, you might begin by roughing in the idea of the edges.