Statement
I have been attracted to many facets of photography during my life, but a new gravity emerged in the last six years. My lifelong intimate relationship with the natural world reached a point where I had to find a new formula to communicate my experience.
I realized that the concept of time and space is fundamentally different when seen from the natural world’s perspective, where the abstract scale and unimaginable momentum of changes that might already be in motion, or beyond their turning points, are extremely difficult for us to register. Although natural science and its findings are well adapted to these dimensions, science lacks the tools of expression, revealing a gap between its findings and its effectiveness to stimulate change. My work is an attempt to bridge this gap.
Although it could contribute to public discourse about environmental challenges, I prefer to concentrate on the difficulties we have in facing the philosophy of nature and in accepting the concept of our accommodation within a living system upon which we are so dependent.
In my work I focus entirely on landscapes and the natural world of Ontario. It's not a specific place that interests me, but rather the idea of it. My imagery does not rely on sentimentality because the complex and dynamic systems of nature are better served by a challenging dialogue. In my work I give central stage to the richness of visual experience, while fully relying on the credibility of my medium. I avoid theories and I prefer to stimulate all the senses, both at the creating and receiving ends.