Artist’s Statement

Webster’s dictionary defines wall: a high masonry structure…

Of course, we all know what a wall is, it keeps out, protects and if attached to a house holds a roof over our heads. What interests me is the foreign wall, the crumbling one and maybe most of all forgotten walls. Walls that seem to have history. There is mystery in their incomplete telling and open to a viewer’s interpretation. I appreciate walls’ varied textures and a forlornness of the abandoned. A simple abode made and slowly being destroyed by the elements can have a certain splendor. Witnesses of secret histories, the walls of scattered lands evoke their own stories with decay or intricate patinas.

My work is to uncover majesty wherever found no matter how seemingly mundane it may at first seem. The wall can be both simple and grand and it represents mankind’s effort to keep out prying eyes and thieves. Once I began photographing crumbling walls, I have never looked at a home or building in quite the same way. It is my hope to share that vision with you as the discovery continues.

Honors:

2010 Marquis Who’s Who in American Art
2009 Visiting Professor, Osmania University, Hyderabad, INDIA
2004 Visiting Professor, Utkal Culture University, Bhubaneswar, INDIA

Exhibitions:

2008 Retrospective: Photographs 1978-2008, CICCC, Beijing, CHINA