ABOUT

I am a self-taught artist & photographer, in years past I worked in fine art galleries throughout the American Southwest and on commercial photo projects with both national and regional companies as a freelance commercial photographer. I am the founder of Terratory Journal www.terratory.org. The Journal publishes creative content generated by a community of contemporary landscape photographers, artists, writers and subject matter experts and is devoted to elaborating on concepts related to strengthening our understanding of human interactions and impacts on the natural world.

STATEMENT

Having lived in six U.S. states, and both east and west of the Mississippi River, I have experienced and observed a variety of unique landscapes and topographic environments within the continental United States. This life experience has deeply impacted my approach to artistic subject matter and influenced the various landscape and geographic themes found throughout my work. My primary mission as an artist is to understand and document human interactions with nature and contemporary American man-made landscapes.

My current artistic output is both three-dimensional and sculptural and combines elements of both photography and architectural form. I source and use industrial materials of our built environment such as aluminum, steel, wood, metal, glass, neon, LEDs and backlit exposed film to produce three-dimensional works about human altered space, land use, sustainability and global environmental issues.