Like most photo projects, this one began on accident over 10 years ago via the alignment of curiosity about cameras, boredom on Sunday afternoons, and a sense of wonderment about the world and its many lights, moods, and faces.

Several rounds of formal instruction later, numerous inspirational travels, and quotidian neighborhood strolls have resulted in a portfolio across which a core strand of surrealism and a subset of consistent themes have emerged and been reinforced in ongoing work. They are ready to see the light.

Free word association leads me to think these photographs belong with such things as dark rooms, developer fluid, coffee stains, wine bars, waterfalls, piano keys, bookstores, buttermilk pancakes, fresh parsley, sappy trees, cobblestone streets, typewriters, dumbwaiters, bowling balls, oil cans, moon rocks, mollusks, marzipan…