A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects.

You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.