• If you are interested in the Time exposures 1989-1997 book (4.8 mb., 122 pages, 103 photos) please email me a request and I will send you the pdf file.
• Download the Samples 2003-08 book (700K, 39 pages).

I began shooting photographs when I came to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship in 1987. My initial photography (Time Exposures 1989-1997) was inspired by my work as a painter and my background in science. Dissatisfied by the limited duration required to expose a photographic image I soon began to search for a technique that could integrate my sensibility as a painter with photography and began shooting time exposures. This technique involved opening the shutter of a camera in total darkness and exposing the subject with variously sized flashlights and strobes used as light painting tools. This technique exposes the negatives only in select areas where the subject has been painted with light. Figures and objects can be repeated throughout the space to create a sense of time passage and animation. In Time Exposures the duration of the exposures ranged from 2 minutes to 6 hours. This lighting technique enabled me to move toward a more personal vision and to create images that would suggest a sense of time passage and motion.

The representation of time as an expanding/contracting entity became one of the central topics of this work and continues to be the focus of my current practice. The Time Exposure series was produced over the period of nine years from 1989 to 1997. These photos were also inspired by personal life experiences (bathtubs) and a heightened awareness of the vulnerability and ephemeral nature of the human body. The figurative distortions and the dense claustrophobia in these images becomes a metaphor for psychological and mental states of being. The images became representations of the interior of the photographers' mind that becomes simultaneously the voyeur and the object of voyeurism. The camera lens is turned inwards upon the photographers' world that becomes the subject (self-portraiture) and the object of representation. The dismembered or decapitated body parts and figurative aberrations in Time Exposures references the work of all those artists who used the human body as a site of physiological and formal exploration (Kafka, Sartre, Burroughs, Francis Bacon, Italian 16th century Mannerism, etc...).

Beginning in 1992 my work as a photographer and installation artist began to overlap for the creation of concept and process driven works that fluidly integrate a mixed media approach. My practice oscillates between shooting photographic images, video, constructing sculptural interfaces, projection rigs and the development of computer hardware/software. My current work takes the final form of a series of photographs or digital stills and a multimedia installation. I use photography as a flexible tool to record my images (Samples), or to generate time-lapse sequences and animations that are compiled as multimedia software applications (cesb 2006, cesb 2008). Stills are selected and edited to compile image series (panoramas, portraits, travel strips and traveler-thinker).

The representation of time/space as a malleable and ever expanding/contracting entity continues to be the focus of my work. The history of time from Newton through Einstein to quantum mechanics and Steve Hawkins (A Brief History of Time) fuels and inspires my practice.