Common Ground

The large-scale digital inkjet photographs comprising Common Ground are a return to first principles: they are about picture-making per se and investigate how the signs and symbols of the contemporary landscape, the shape of light itself, can be combined to form visual narratives. I believe photography has the potential to generate the same expressive power as music and poetry, especially when pictures are read in combination, as metaphoric allusions to hidden (and all too human) psychological and emotional states. Common Ground taps my subconscious, and I believe these explorations of space and time resonate with the viewer’s as well. The content reflects the fracturing of perception and meaning so common in a period of history when many of our most cherished beliefs about the world, and humanity’s relationship to it, are under challenge and threat. Yet they are not about deconstruction so much as reconstruction. Although these visual poems don’t propose definitive answers, if such are even possible any longer, they do suggest a common ground on which people can relate and communicate honestly.