I began seeing the world framed by a lens after graduate school, when I left Minnesota to travel Asia and Europe. My first SLR was my compadre for 5 years, helping process novel and chaotic worlds by filtering detail.
Dropping anchor in Los Angeles introduced me to a world of visual entertainment, resulting in 15 years of work as a theme park designer for Walt Disney Imagineering. In theme park design, as in photography, I value elegance – a surface simplicity that reveals spare but satisfying complexity.
An academic background in biology (B.S.) gives context to my focus on nature , where I am particularly interested in isolating the inaccessible, and in breaking the natural world into its fundamental parts.
As a linguist (M.A.) I value the human power to assign meaning via deliberate composition. Hoping to provide new impressions of familiar objects, I strip away layers of information, allowing fresh connotations to arise in the absence of usual contexts.
