These collections explore light as subject. Form, volume, and dimension are all created by long exposures that obscure the source of the light and/or the surface off which it's being reflected, attempting instead to give the light a body of its own within the image. Post-production is kept to a minimum, consisting largely of cropping and color balancing. In an era when many abstract photographers are spending hours refining their Photoshop layering techniques, I explicitly try to retain the improvisation and life of performance.

Much of my work is inspired by painters. Richter, Pollock, Rothko, and others from western abstract traditions often draw me toward color fields and textures, but I'm also looking to eastern printmakers and calligraphers like Toko Shinoda for ideas about line and composition. That said, much of my technique is an attempt to find rhythm in light, so my effort goes into exploring different movements with the camera: trying to find the particular "dance" with my body, the camera controls, and a light subject to create a final image I like. Preferably without making everyone around me think I'm being electrocuted by my camera.

Some of my images have strong lines and clear movement, others are quietly radiant. None of them have names, because I think of them more as ephemeral dances than objects. Dances can have names, I suppose, but my hope is that viewers will experience these images as personal meditations, unencumbered by my names or experience in making them.