About Me

Self-Portrait With Dogs

I was seduced by literature while hovering in the vicinity of my 40's, and photography possessed me about a decade later. I'm self-taught in both. But I was formally trained as a musician and learned from a lifetime immersed in music that the magic, when it happens, has the same essentials in all the arts—harmony, melody, rhythm. Even in stillness, when you listen, there's a heartbeat.

Animals have always been a huge part of my life. Unsurprisingly, they often amble into my work. And nature, simply, enraptures. My only method is: stay open to everything, seek the edge—the one that makes you feel like you're tangling with a koan—and never lose the spirit of play.

If I could conjure a perfect work of art, it would be part J.S. Bach, Emily Dickinson, Stevie Wonder, and Gary Larson