The Comfort of Uncertainty

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Art and life are never static. Never the same from one moment to the next – this holds true for the way the window light illuminates my desk, the expression on a person’s face in an unguarded moment, and even the chaotic tangle of my curly hair. Much of my work is based on a desire to look behind the masks we create in order to show the world we are doing "just fine." I ask my subject to trust me enough to reveal a personal truth; to bring the best of themselves to the work in that moment.

Every image that is created is a new beginning – an object that didn’t previously exist. A record of an experience that is then shared with the world. A series of questions. I often create because the need is there, the energy is powerful - and can be dangerous if ignored for too long. Yet my work is completed by the viewer. The photograph continues to evolve and become something new for every person who interacts with it.

Jack Gilbert says, "...anything worth doing is worth doing badly." Creating anything with lasting meaning and impact requires risking the safety and comfort of knowing what will come next. My challenge is to continue picking up the camera, questioning everything I think I know, seeing the world again and again. And finally, allowing myself to be seen. Your challenge is to look.

"In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot -- and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice." - Ted Orland and David Bayles, Art & Fear

The Comfort of Uncertainty

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Art and life are never static. Never the same from one moment to the next – this holds true for the way the window light illuminates my desk, the expression on a person’s face in an unguarded moment, and even the chaotic tangle of my curly hair. Much of my work is based on a desire to look behind the masks we create in order to show the world we are doing "just fine." I ask my subject to trust me enough to reveal a personal truth; to bring the best of themselves to the work in that moment.

Every image that is created is a new beginning – an object that didn’t previously exist. A record of an experience that is then shared with the world. A series of questions. I often create because the need is there, the energy is powerful - and can be dangerous if ignored for too long. Yet my work is completed by the viewer. The photograph continues to evolve and become something new for every person who interacts with it.

Jack Gilbert says, "...anything worth doing is worth doing badly." Creating anything with lasting meaning and impact requires risking the safety and comfort of knowing what will come next. My challenge is to continue picking up the camera, questioning everything I think I know, seeing the world again and again. And finally, allowing myself to be seen. Your challenge is to look.

"In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot -- and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice." - Ted Orland and David Bayles, Art & Fear

Finding Your Inner Story.

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This year is a time of personal expansion. I am saying "yes!" to new opportunities and collaborations, and I am so excited to share the journey with you! When the world feels like it is spinning too quickly, when the energy of New York builds higher and higher, when I feel like questioning every thing I make and what it all means, I return the deep places inside myself, so full of both darkness and light. Yoga and meditation prepare for insight, even revelation. Photography and writing give me the tools to record that process.

When Liza Keogh asked me to work with her to develop a retreat that incorporates all of these experiences, I felt like I won the lottery.

Retreats invite us to shed our daily habits and enter spaces that can feel very different from what we are used to experiencing on any given day. In this new space we are open to personal and professional change, enhanced creativity, awakened awareness, even deep transformation. The retreats Liza and I are developing encourage the integration of creative and mindful practices to uncover, discover and reveal your inner story, under the artful guidance of two long-time teachers.

Upcoming retreats include: Finding the Inner Story Photography, Yoga, and Meditation Retreat with Marico Fayre & Liza Keogh. August 7-10, 2014 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico - and - October 17-19, 2014 at Nine Mountain Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA.

More information & additional retreats and workshops are coming soon!

Finding Your Inner Story.

img_7265.jpg

This year is a time of personal expansion. I am saying "yes!" to new opportunities and collaborations, and I am so excited to share the journey with you! When the world feels like it is spinning too quickly, when the energy of New York builds higher and higher, when I feel like questioning every thing I make and what it all means, I return the deep places inside myself, so full of both darkness and light. Yoga and meditation prepare for insight, even revelation. Photography and writing give me the tools to record that process.

When Liza Keogh asked me to work with her to develop a retreat that incorporates all of these experiences, I felt like I won the lottery.

Retreats invite us to shed our daily habits and enter spaces that can feel very different from what we are used to experiencing on any given day. In this new space we are open to personal and professional change, enhanced creativity, awakened awareness, even deep transformation. The retreats Liza and I are developing encourage the integration of creative and mindful practices to uncover, discover and reveal your inner story, under the artful guidance of two long-time teachers.

Upcoming retreats include: Finding the Inner Story Photography, Yoga, and Meditation Retreat with Marico Fayre & Liza Keogh. August 7-10, 2014 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico - and - October 17-19, 2014 at Nine Mountain Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA.

More information & additional retreats and workshops are coming soon!

Seven Days: March 9

Seven Days: March 9