the work begins in observation: something in another person, a gesture, a concealment, a moment of unguarded feeling. i am the observer and the initiator, and eventually the one who attempts to make something from what i've seen.

the process is difficult and often frustrating. i keep returning to it in different materials and different forms, always as experiment, rarely with resolution. what i am searching for is something honest, something still. occasionally i find it, or something close to it, and that is enough to continue.