| ARTIST STATEMENT As a child I remember a hard cover book that my parents kept in our living room called “The World’s Last Mysteries”. I remember it well as it had an Aztec sun calendar on the front cover. I believe my fascination with travel and ancient cultures started here. I would spend hours going through the pages, looking at the ruins of Angkor, Machu Picchu, and Ancient Egypt with day dreams of being Indiana Jones and exploring the temples. As I got older my fascination with foreign lands grew and I jumped at every opportunity to travel abroad. I had traveled to Korea, China, Mexico, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore and Jamaica before I had graduated from college. My goal was to someday see every place that was in that book. The more I traveled the more addicted I became to the entire experience. In recent years I have also added Peru, Thailand, Vietnam, Panama and multiple trips to Cambodia to my list of travels. My artwork represents the places I’ve been and the spiritual connections I’ve made with foreign lands, people, cultures and religions. The inspiration of my many mentors has inevitably been channeled through my work over the years and to them I am eternally grateful. It is through my photography that I try to capture a moment in time, an object of mystery or a portrait of a culture. It is with my collage work that I try to share a cultural story, myth, legend or a piece of history. I hope that my artwork inspires others to travel, learn and experience the unknown or learn more about the many cultures, people and religions in this beautiful world in which we live. You may discover we’re all more alike than different in every way. |
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