The inspiration for most of my photographic projects comes from artists working in mediums other than photography—especially late Modernists painters, Surrealists, Dada, and conceptual artists—whose works have suggested possibilities for making photographs that come out of my experience of looking at and thinking about art. The course of such projects has been to make:
• Photographs that look like art (a Pictorialist mode)
• Photographs of art (a documentary mode)
• Photographs of things that look like art (a metaphoric mode)
My current work clarifies this investigation: “Things That Look Like Art” is a collection of observations of found artifacts, photographed in situ and intended to address my perception about art and its representation in a photograph. I find a certain purity of vision when an art-like experience is had when no acknowledged art is present. This work is meant to comment about both art and vision so as to initiate a conversation. It is also an invitation to others to engage in something similar so as to participate in a purely visual dialog. Such an exchange should clarify perceptions, allow the communication of idiosyncratic ideas, and encourage the sharing of visual experience.

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Much of the inspiration for my photography comes from artists working in mediums other than photography—especially Modernist painters, Surrealists, Dada and conceptual artists—whose works have suggested possibilities for expanding my vision and provided a reference for my visual ideas. My primary art concerns have long been:
• to make pictures that cohere into compact but complete visual ideas
• to work through particular visual ideas in a series of pictures
• to develop series of pictures that hang together as a sort of literary description of objects, places and thoughts.
My way of doing this is to apply the methods of each series to particular motifs including landscape, architecture, vernacular subjects, sexual imagery, portraits of family and friends, the happenstance of chance encounters, artworks by other artists, color, and the photographic process itself.

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