Graphite, 2013.

G E A R S  #4.  Charcoal, 2013.

This image started as a film photograph—I shot these gears in a metal shop, as evening light billowed through the the greasy windows. After developing and printing the image in a traditional darkroom, I decided to enlarge the image in a drawing, and this is the finished piece. 

As I was drawing, the words from Regina Spektor's Music Box came to mind:

Life inside the music box ain't easy
The mallets hit the gears are always turning
And everyone inside the mechanism
Is yearning
To get out
And sing another melody completely
So different from the one they're always singing

Chalk & Charcoal, 2014.

B I G   C O T T O N W O O D   C A N Y O N,   Autumn #3.  Oil, 2014.

Mixed Media. 2014

Pastel, 2014.

I backpacked from London to Istanbul and photographed over 600 strangers.

While planning my trip, I remember worrying that I wouldn’t have anything in common with the people I encountered overseas. We were separated by nationality, race, religion, creed, tradition, culture and language, and I worried that these barriers would be insurmountable. 

The camera became a tool, or an excuse, to explore these barriers, and I soon realized, as I met and talked with strangers, that we had everything in common. They were woven as threads, with me, into the complex, ever-strecthing fabric of the human family. 

These images, for me, are an affirmation of our interconnectedness.


Here are 19 of 634.

H  A  N  D  S  #11.  Van Dyke Print, Bleached. 2013