In the Deep Heart’s Core
I consider myself, at heart, a landscape photographer. I find nature to be the place where I am made both exquisitely aware of the temporal limits of earth and simultaneously teased by the seductive hint of unseen forces. I am particularly drawn to the horizon, the place where heaven meets earth, where the heart can wing outward toward that unknown.
This series, “In the Deep Heart’s Core,” taken in Connemara, Ireland along the Galway Bay, celebrates that liminal space and honors my genetic memory as well. It is a place that is wild, windy and a reminder of those who went before me.
My desire to explore the unseen has led me to experiment with in-camera motion and multiple exposure to refine emotional landscapes that are drawn from reality but may not always be seen there. It is a long process with many failures, but the results can be satisfying.
Most of these photographs involve either movement or layering of images.
Above all, it is joy in this present world that propels much of my work, and it is the search for the unknown that refines it.
