My work is about sculpting with light and stripping photography  down to its essentials.  I am interested in the intersection between abstraction and the observed world, and transforming simple materials—paper, ice, and stone—into free compositions that are more suggestive than descriptive. Informed by years of photographing architectural space and form, I orchestrate tonalities by layering opaque and translucent fields in response to light’s interaction with a given surface. In one body of work I make gestural cuts in paper with a blade to create formal elements—shapes and values that through light variations become fluid passages interrupted by a sharp edge or a thin black line. Other works are dominated by fractured planes of texture and high contrast, serving as counterpoints to the sensual curves of the paper imagery. In the end, my photographs are homages to materiality and the ephemeral nature of light.