Déjà vu is an encounter with an association or experience which cannot be remembered, and memory is merely a process of reconstruction.  This reconstruction comes from elaborations, omissions and distortions of events we may not have experienced before.    Childhood amnesia left me with huge voids in my memories, leading me to question what is real and what is imagined.  Transitioning from painting to photography has helped me to record on film the fleeting moments that would otherwise be lost between the light and shadow of the mind.  I have explored past life regression, hypnosis, and therapy to reclaim these memories and visions of the past. These motion filled dreams are draped in mysterious stark contrast and chairoscuro lighting.  This series is a dream of a time that is bound only by the limits of the imagination.

From 2005 to the present, I have shot over 14,000 photographs documenting my journey along the Hudson River back to New York City.  Traveling is a meditative experience, which has helped me to remember lost pieces of time.  In this series of photographs, I explore the familiar but changing landscape from the window of the train.  These structures have been transformed by time and nature. They appear as monuments or ruins, having fallen into a state of partial or complete disrepair.

Chance and spontaneity characterize my shooting style, capturing fleeting moments before they disappear.  This series charts the changing seasons and the transient effects of light on the landscape.  It records a personal history, a collection of moments that address the cycles inherent in nature.  

In November 2011, Hudson Past/Perfect was printed as a self-published artist book for an exhibition at the SPE North East conference at LightWork in Syracuse, NY, and is now being displayed in the Howard Greenberg Gallery artist book collection in New York City.

I am more concerned with the transient effects of light and color.  My images become less defined. The speed of the train plays an integral role and the landscape becomes more painterly in this series.  The elements that compose the photographs are strangely familiar.  It seems that they have become reconfigured by the movements of the train. 

As a painter and now as a photographer I have been drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. This series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and Nature were viewed as one.

The Journey signifies that hidden in the last light of the day is the confluence of all the energies, elements, and powers that have moved through that space.  Each moment represents a flashback journey to an ever deeper inner past.  Within the present are all those moments that came before. shaped my approach to these dream-like, motion-filled, painterly images reflected in this series.