I point my video camera at my surroundings, wherever I happen to be. While landscape is a recurring theme in my current work, the images I make are studies of human connection to "place" rather than depictions of conventional landscapes. Scenic views are far less interesting to me than exploring how we occupy our surroundings.

My interest in creating videos has little to do with reproducing exactly what I see.  I am interested in making art that is separate from, but inspired by the physical world. What draws me to videomaking is the ability to explore Time, rhythm, and choreography.  Video can pull you into nostalgia, longing, or contemplation.  It can move you to think about time, as it seems to exist in daily experience or outside of it: historical, geological, limitless. The rhythms and structure of a video create a dynamic interplay of visuals and sound often leaving the viewer to determine meaning.

While my original subject is evident, the final work is an interpretation.  My videos have both the visual power of seeming real and yet sometimes blurred, extended, and confusing.  I would say my video practice falls within several contemporary visual traditions, including new documentary, personal journalistic narrative, visual essays, and visual poetry.  I am most interested in the immense mysteriousness and sometimes seemingly contradictory nature of the stuff of life itself.