Artist Statement

I work from an elevated vantage, looking down on ordinary winter scenes until they stop being places. Snow, structure, and raking light reduce the familiar — a rooftop, a railing, a drift — into line and tone. What remains reads as something else: lunar ground, a ridge of bare mountains, dunes shaped by wind.

What holds me is the tension between permanence and impermanence — mass and geometry settling against each other, wind moving over a still surface, the brief marks left by light and by people passing through.

This is not new to me. For twenty years in the culinary arts I built things meant to disappear — ice that melted, plates undone the moment they were seen. Photography now lets me hold that same transient process: the work is kept instead of lost.

These images ask one thing — that you slow down and notice where nature and our shared, lived-in spaces meet, and what light, wind, and time make of them.

I’ve come to understand that the art is nature’s. I only took notice.