EMERGENCE
We are always arriving. Even as we turn to ponder what has transpired or is yet to come, we
arrive into a new moment. Dawn rises from the dark. Shapes appear as silhouettes, indistinct and
elemental in the growing light. Detail gradually fills in the outline of objects, texture and form
revealed in the process of illumination. Dusk reverses the process as shadow slowly consumes all
once again. The new emanates from what was, arising magically out of the previous state. Seasons,
 tides, generations, dawns and dusks, all move in this current.
Natural scenes portray this full chronology, from the newest bud to the final remnant of decay,
the blaze of autumn amidst the mulch of past turnings, waves erasing tracks and trails while writing
anew upon the shore, or hidden behind the scrim of mist haphazard deposits appear as the
 tide breathes in, then out. It is moment from moment in an endless materialization.

As a photographer I take on the challenge of portrayal: how to hold in static image the sense of
imminence and transition embodied in nature. Often the dimension which best catches its feel is
empty space, a sort of medium into or out of which the present constantly blossoms. Thus fog,
ocean, water, sky become a stage in which the scene occurs. The elements have coalesced as if
from nothing, caught in the act of becoming. In this body of work I endeavor to capture that feeling
of arrival, of presence, of form emerging from magic.