RESONANCE AND REVERBERATION - Glimpses is a series of photographs about the nature of sudden insights. These often come in ways that bypass the logical, contemplative mind; they pierce through the surface of one’s usual mode of existence, and find a deeper truth. This project was conceived for the emergence of these kinds of insight in a visual way. The images are taken from a moving car, on interstate highways across the United States. I use speed to invoke an intuitive collaboration between emotion, intellect, and action. Doing so depends on recognizing, in a split second, a resonance between the total of what I see, and an inner truth. The visual elements in the viewfinder change so rapidly, there’s little chance to think or compose. My task is to remain as open and attentive as possible, and poised to act when a resonant chord is struck. This idea of resonance can be compared to the way a tuning fork is used to tune a piano. When a key is played on a piano and its sound corresponds exactly to that of the tuning fork, they resonate at the same frequency. The images result from this correspondence between what is inside of me and what is outside.

The group of paintings also has to do with insight. But instead of using the outside to see in, they are direct expressions of an inner reality. They are like musical improvisations in color, stroke, and form. Each painting is completed in one sitting, late at night, as the experiences of my day reverberate within me. They echo within the walls of my thoughts and emotions, and are absorbed. Over the course of several hours, the painting becomes a physical entity of its own, one that I can later look at and see what I was, from the outside in.

My aim is to get to the essentials of experience, without the details of a narrative. In this way the deeply personal might suggest the more universal, if it also speaks to the essential in other people.