A TELEGRAM FROM THE FUTURE

CAFFEINATED ART PAPER, RISOGRAPH PRINT, COLLAGE, TEABAGS.

8 X 11 INCHES

"I present artifacts and objects as evidence (seemingly random at first glance and trapped in those layers of imagery that inevitably merge, though they super cede one another), or as ghostly traces that seem to have floated upward of their own accord from the lucid depths of the oracle-photographer’s developing tray.

More than serving up a one-dimensional intellectual game or rationalized grid on which to hang arguments or logical summations, my juxtaposed images of local visions seduce and play with our mental processes, hint at something more, draw us close, then cut us loose again as we seek to create some linear conclusion about their potential meanings.

And the meanings—the stories—are there, as they are in any well-composed piece of music or poetry. The poetry of our own cultures and identity. And as with any element of, or character in a story, each reader interprets his or her own slightly angled version, as though through a reflection in a private mirror in which perceptions share equal weight and position beside the light that belongs to us all. However, the light glances away quickly from any hierarchy, leaving only faint or bold impressions in our ruffled minds.”