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.