Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to get to, honestly. It has taken me many years to get to that place and to define it visually.

Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their psyche, by making my personal subjective journey concrete for others, then I am very happy.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.