Where is the Way to the Home of Light? Straw Moment From the series, “Songs of the Prairie” From the series, “Songs of the Prairie” 26" x 19" archival pigment print on paper 26" x 19" archival pigment print on paper How does this quest for enchantment inform your work and your artistic process? It may seem counter-intuitive, but person. But I see stories in them. is not so much to tell the story, but to the first thing that comes to mind is I have put a lot of study and effort facilitate the telling of it. “play.” Children are natural believers into understanding the techniques of I have heard it said that we ought in an enchanted universe while they photography, how to use the complex not say that we “take” pictures. Instead, are still young enough to believe in software of today’s computers, color we could say we “receive” them as fairies. This lasts until adults get theory, composition, line, value, tone, gifts, as pointers to a larger reality. I hold of them and persuade them they volume and all the other terms you genuinely enjoy working with those must “put away childish things.” So learn in art school. images, refining them until I have a I take a lesson from the kids. I allow But all that is just background. clearer view of the reality they point myself to be distracted by “shiny Starting with a photo, or a small section to, the stories they tell. While I admit things,” patterns of light and shadow, of a photo, or sometimes a sketch, I that most of my images remain at a the extraordinary beauty right in simply play. I try not to have too many certain level of abstraction, that is part front of us that most people tend preconceived notions of what I’m after of the joy. Abstraction can sometimes to miss. I take a lot of photographs because I want the story to come out speak to us more clearly of the of things that would appear to be of the images in an organic fashion. ineffable, describing those things that completely random to the average Just like designing a book, my intent are sometimes verbally indescribable. Walking on Water Crossing Over From the series, “Jesus Was a Sailor.” From the series, “Jesus Was a Sailor.” 32" x 24" archival pigment print on paper 32" x 24" archival pigment print on paper 24