I’ve always been drawn to stories whether they be in the form of books, movies or still images. Still images for me are just a small part of a larger story, a quick moment which is subject to interpretation or creative license (for construction of reality) due to the lack of additional context. I enjoy reading an artists own words about their work or even certain critics’ words on a work too. In art school we were told that we could only control a small part of what observers would take away from our works. Observers bring their own experiences, moods, bias to the viewing of your work so they make up their own story of what it is about. The strongest work, whether photography, drawing or painting, for me is when I stand in front of it and a rush of emotions and memories flood my mind. Examples of paintings that do this for me include the works of Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenburg and Julian Schnabel but there are so many others. In photography, images take me to a different place, time or situation. Black and white photos can shroud things in shadows opening the image to further interpretation and construction.
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