My art is the result of 20 years pretending to know every answer and solution when uncertainty is the fundamental context and condition of human existence.
As a corporate change leader, my "visual eye" was used for clinical indexing: spreadsheets, document management, project timelines, and the logic of industrial productivity and efficiency. I was a technician of the sharp focus and the bulleted list. I lived a life of Banana Republic business casual and somatic debt, where the goal was to "poke" at digital systems to conjure up knowledge rather than "grasp" raw and alive information.
Then, I stopped.
My current practice is an act of benevolent sabotage against that 20-year pedigree. I use the camera not to document facts, but to record the unstructured truth of the human nervous system’s interaction with light and what it reveals.
By performing choreographed chiral (hand) movements during long exposures, I am tuning my frequencies with those of the environment before me. These images are the visual symptoms of a middle manager finally learning how to witness the world with his body instead of his job description.
Note about my work - all images are created fully in camera as single exposures via full manual mode, followed by light editing with Lightroom.
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
- Minor White