The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.