I work at the edges
Just before or just after
STILNESS
HERE
…the worn pavement, the empty bench, the shuttered window
DRIFT
PERIPHERY
I drift through urban landscapes in search of what unfolds quietly within them, the overlooked, the obvious, the local. My attention is drawn to the mundane: the worn pavement, the empty bench, the shuttered window, the small unguarded scenes that pass unnoticed in the rush between past and future. These are the places I return to, not because they are beautiful, but because they are here, and because they will not always be.
I work at the edges, peripheries of cities, in-between hours, places suspended just before or just after something. There is a stillness in these spaces that I find difficult to name, a quiet that holds both melancholy and a kind of patient endurance. I photograph them as a way of holding still in a chaotic world, of anchoring the present moment before it becomes memory.
The photograph, for me, is a surface. What each viewer brings to it, their own memory, mood, projection, is what gives it meaning. My hope is that theses images become quiet places to pause, lost frames from a story that stays just beyond reach.
We may fade from sight and memory. The work remains, for as long as it does, as a record of attention paid to what was here.
A record of attention paid to what was here
The rush between past and future
A quiet I cannot name
UNNOTICED
ENDURANCE