Artist Statement

My major involvement in photography ties together two genres of art - still life and landscape. The visual quality of my work is multi-layered. I am interested in creating a complex and dynamic visual discourse between forms.

Photography's potential as visual art is to draw with light, and this is the intent of my work. I use light and its counterpart－shadow, two complementary elements to sculpt the photographic space; to remove objects from their original context and utilitarian purposes, to shape their presence with different qualities of light, and transform them into aesthetic forms. Nuance of color and color cast in my work depicts the sensuousness of light comprising visual form and visual harmonics.

There is an abstract quality in my dealing with representational content in photography inviting the visual appreciation of aesthetic form on both intellectual and emotional levels. For me, photography speaks two languages. It represents and it creates and so embodies thought and feeling.