Ars Photo/Grafica

Artist Statement:

PERCIPIO, ERGO SUM
I PERCEIVE, THEREFORE I AM

I draw inspiration for my work for the most part from the various and diverse images of the urban landscape. My perceptual search finds its ultimate purpose and gratification in the employment of the computer as a tool of digital enhancement and manipulation of photographic sources.
My aim is to capture, distill and reduce to essential metaphysical symbols the various images (visual scapes) which typify the city. Time and space are largely mental constructs (cogito) which structure our perceptions, and are therefore inherently subjective and ultimately elusive.The computer and now the digital camera, by employing binary code to represent, encapsulate, and reproduce every aesthetic element of the photographic image, has irrevocably dispelled its perceptual unity, thus dissolving the (viewer's illusion of) unity of time and space within which it appears to exist. Thus, stripped, the image has no choice but to revert to the mutable and elusive pre-conceptual fluidity of the viewer's mind. And what amazing worlds unfold right before his eyes when this happens! Photographic images, whether computer or photo-chemically generated are permanent visual condensations, capturing a specific point along the time-space continuum, which we can willingly re-enter at any time. In fact, they depend on us for their very existence and meaning. They point at us in "the-here-now", trading a view of their past for a glimpse of "our" future.