I produce photographic images and photograms on glass. Photograms are made without a camera. They consist of shadow images formed by casting light on an object placed in line with the photographic plate. All of the images come from a wide array of thoughts and feelings (constructs) gathered with little preconception. Once obtained, they are treated as found objects, selected and organized according to my focus as it narrows and becomes more specific. I layer and arrange the glass photo-plates in various frames and structures to articulate these relationships. One goal is that the images become part of the structure, inseparable from the piece as a whole, like the words in a well crafted poem.

"And we: spectators always, everywhere,
looking on, but never beyond!
World overwhelms us. We order it. The order falls.
We rearrange it and come apart ourselves."

From Reading Rilke (The Eighth Elegy)
by William Gass