It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious awareness of any kind of literal narrative. And that's why I really try not to pump up motivation or plot or anything like that.

The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense in my world. And I think we all look for that in our lives, because our lives are generally filled with chaos and confusion and disorder and complication.

In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality.