In my work I've tried to orchestrate elements from our common environment into a composition that, like music, exists for its own sake. Each image is a composite arrangement of the view through, and reflection on, a lite of clear glass. The unexpected combination of familiar elements is fused by the creation of a unified graphic composition. The viewer is invited to experience new spatial associations between sometimes mutually exclusive places, such as inside and outside, simultaneously.
When images from the inside and outside, or forward and backward, are merged, a new in-between space can be experienced in the context of their unified graphic composition. The elements together have the chance to grow and illustrate something else. The simultaneously transparent and reflective surface of the glass is their meeting point, it's the set for the play and that is where I capture them. I am not trying to recreate reality but to re-associate images originating in the physical world with the viewers imagination. If the image is going to be successful then the merging of the two scenes needs to be seamless. The work is about those mystical compositions that the reflections create not about those compositions as reflections. The glass is the instrument used to create the magic of a new visual understanding of a multi-layered world.
The way I composite my images, I synthesize two distinct and unique elements, recognized by the viewer as something that should be separate. The merging of the forms is of essence to the whole composition in an effort to create the desired effect of raising the question about place and space. The compositional organization is the catalyst synthesizing the two distinct elements, while maintaining the tension between the two.