Statement

The soul seeks death as it lives. -James Hillman

To strip away the normal, sanitary feel of the digital photo, it must be subjected to decay. In colliding two disparate images I'm hoping to introduce a temporary interruption of logical thought, bringing together the unrelated so that there can be a connection to the death experience. My images are about imagining the death experience, not as some literal end, but as a necessary ingredient to life itself.

Animals can be a way for us to connect to something deep within our nature and so I show them at their end as a way of stimulating a basic and primal perspective. Something in the psyche values terrain, landscape, and earth and I have sought to find union between the animal and the land. Terrain's harshness, softness, and infinite rearrangements of space are as much an external phenomena as an interior experience.

Within a life, there are death experiences. Death is often related to through fear and apprehension but the instinctual, animal self is not afraid. The soul seeks necessary experiences which bring about dissolution of the false.