...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive. I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe.

A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.

Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice. I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation - and also joy and delight.