My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya's phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. I am the universe. I am my garden. All things are the same.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me.