My photographs focus on the intersections between the horrific and

the sublime and the realizations of a mutable Self through identification

with the Other. They serve as a quest to find, understand and connect with

the forces, objects and places and people I believe, at times, are outside of

my essence. Thus, they are an attempt to dialogue and reconcile with what

psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott would call the “not-me” and to expand the

spectrum of my subjectivity.

The process and content of the photographs are rooted in the here

and now of the moment with the subjects, even when the images are

staged. My aesthetic cues are perhaps most influenced by the work of

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and various horror films of

the 1970’s. Many of these images also explore the stages of the lived gay

experience and the emotional and intrapsychic dialectics that inform and

distort one’s sense of interiority. Ultimately, they aim to resolve the

alienating chasms and the illusive gaps between erotic dread and spiritual

renewal, to render and hold the transitional objects and spaces between

wounded and regenerative selves.