My original entre into the medium of photography was through the genre of the landscape. How can you begin to capture the beauty that surrounds us? Oregon's richly diverse palette of nature's expression inspires artists of every ilk. My interest is not in recreating travel and tourist pictures, but by exploring images that reveal a sense of place and a reverence for the envirnonment whose allure never fades.

One of two series of photographs exploring our modern day agoras, (Greek public places of meetings and markets). The carnival asks us to take a risk. Go on a thrill ride! Win a toy! Meet someone new! It's a cacophonous, pungent, visual melange that is as surprising as a well-executed magic trick. We enter the carnival for a sense of wonder, and as quick as cotton candy melting in your mouth, the thrill is over and the carnival is gone.

I received several grants to do a series of environmental portratis in the 1970s & 80's of our creative community in the Northwest and beyond. While many of the images here are now documents of our cultural advocates, the original intent was to reflect an affirmation of creative and positive energy in the world. Fellow artists have continued to intrigue me as a subject matter.

I find the landscape of the desert Southwest to be an enticing and exotic arena full of mythic and historical references. I am more attracted to the "otherness" of the place, as it doesn't allow for the comforting embrace of forests as in the Northwest. The starkness and the contrasts of this landscape evoke a sense of mystery and awe.

Begun, as with many of my subjects, out of curiosity and as a method of inquiry, I find industry and machines to be another equivalent of the human expression for form and content. Older machines have an organic quality missing in contemporary industry.
I imagine that our contemporary machines may also take on more "human" qualities as they age, and show their history and participation with the world.