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Artist Bio
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As a former academic, I spent most of my adult life being rewarded for overthinking. Steeped in theory and statistics, my world as a researcher was filled with concepts, hypotheses, qualifiers, and decimal points. I loved those things and still do.
But/and photography challenges me to immediacy: the visual impact of line, color, pattern, proportion, and rhythm . . . sensed unfiltered, in an instant, with minimal interpretation. As an antidote to overthinking, I aim to see with what Miksang contemplative photographers call a fresh eye.
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Equipment? Nothing special. Instead, I try to make the kind of images I want by emphasizing composition and simple gear.
Here, you'll see patterns and surprises from the forests and rolling hills of southern Illinois. Beyond showcasing tiny things exactly as they are in nature, I also love to bring stuff into the studio and create still life pieces.
I've been taking pictures for, um, a while now and have been featured in solo and group exhibitions since 2011. Happily, I had two photos (below) selected for the juried 2018 Shrode Photography Competition & Exhibition at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, and one of them ("Abstract, Colored Straws") won First Place out of 212 entries.
