What I'm good at is making art.

My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.