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I began making photographs as a child;
exploring, learning and becoming aware through photography.
It was once said, "Spirit stands still long enough for
the photographer it has chosen." For me, photographs,
and the act of making them, are glimpses of those timeless
Spirits, glimpses of the pure and unbiased realities of nature
and time. The eye of the camera unlike eye of the viewer,
does not look at life subjectively, no judgment is passed,
no value placed, no claim staked. In that it is the most like
the Mind's eye. When I photograph I try to detach. I don't
question the attraction I have to a subject, it's an attraction
so it's primal. I expose the film and move on, not interfering,
not questioning, not staking a claim. Its in the printmaking
part of the process when the photographs become mine and to
what I was reacting becomes clear and what is to be revealed
is, if only to me. I tweak and fuss the image until the sense
of light, the tones and textures elicit familiar feelings,
primal attractions, a sense of Spirit of place. And I delight
in that something that is unanticipated, that something that
I thought could not be seen. In making the photographs mine
they become my teachers. And they impart an orderly quietness
of symmetry in which Spirit reveals itself.
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