However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes will still exist. Our presence is temporary. Civilization is only 5,000 to 6,000 years. The history of ours, the material history of consciousness, is rather short.

One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.