Since 1986, much of my photo and video work has centered on the investigation of our dichotomous relationship with nature. The images, taken in domestic gardens, garden centers and even areas designated as “nature reserves,” have often been large-scale close-up photographs of organic subjects that are meant to both invite and repel the viewer. Photographs are capable of engaging the viewer both intellectually and physically, and to this end I frame my images without mats to better enable the viewer to interact with, and be drawn into the scene. I use limited depth of field and selective focus as “psychological triggers,” to evoke the small and often terrible dramas that that occur beneath our feet and just outside our scope of vision. In my photographs, I try to subvert the boundary between reality and fiction.
