“All our cognition begins with the senses.”

A point is born from numbers, a line from a number of points, a 2-dimensional figure from a series of lines, a spatial figure from stacked planes, and a perceivable object from that.

This geometrical train of thought runs through my work.
Knowledge and experience are acquired as one ages, forms memories and repeatedly searches for things. I feel this repetitious process is the “visualization experience” I go through in creating an image. I compose collages by adding analog and digital elements to the picture plane until developing a 2-dimensional image in three dimensions and eventually as an object in space. Because this creative process is based on experience rather than a fixed conception of something I have seen, I am turning perceivable objects I have experienced into works.

My childhood memories have served me in this process. For example, I imagined the deep dark, endless blue world I saw before me after diving into the sea. Or, I imagined the world beyond the stars and the moon I saw when gazing up at the sky on a beach at night.

My experiences help me to juxtapose and interpolate the seabed with the universe, the micro with the macro, what I want to see with what I think. While photographs are both evidence and reproductions of what I have seen, my experiences guide me in composing the things I want to see.

I have long sought a meaning to my experiences in my work and will continue to do so to make sense out of my existence.