Artist Statement
The title story of a collection of short fiction I’m writing, Volare, is told through the eyes of the character Agnes, a photographer who, in seeking to perfect her “action shot,” moves toward an understanding of her art as it reveals exact moments but also gives the sense of fluidity, the shifting particles of place and time and the merging of past, present and future.
In the same way that Agnes gains cosmic awareness and insights into her life and family through her work as a photographer, I believe the photographer’s ability to read the landscape, the sky, a street scene or other, by bringing together the elements and working to compose a particular shot, reveals a way of seeing, an inquiry, a developing philosophy and politics and a conversation.
Photography is a way of thinking in images, without words or perhaps with only one word: light. And symbols, three trees seen as three muses. Personal mythology. Above all, it’s about place and connecting to life.
