Artist Statement
It started as a way to blow off steam. In 2007 I was in the midst of a stressful 14-hour-a-day job, and I found solace and comfort in photography. Though I was a nature photographer, the sun was up when I was at work—so I started to play with my camera at night, literally dancing around while making photographs of bouquets of flowers, splashing swaths of unidentifiable color across my virtual page. With practice I learned how to move to get that painterly impressionist effect just right.
I wasn’t planning on doing this elsewhere, but I felt the tug to try this out during my annual fall leaf peeping photography jaunts. With more practice, I could create the ethereal quality that captured, for me, the essence of place—that snapshot you keep in your head that doesn’t retain the details, but remembers the patterns and the colors and the light and the emotion they evoked. In our world today this is most of the moments of our lives—devoid of stillness, moving constantly. Fleeting. Getting that blurry glimpse of the world through the window of a moving car.
Being out in nature shooting is one of my favorite things about photography—I adore the peace and serenity of nature. The silence. The calm. A welcome contrast to the frenzy and chaos of modern life. I try to capture that tranquility in my art. The details are blurred out, creating a simple quiet impression of the place.
Through motion, I create stillness.