I never imagined that the intention of art was to be accurate. It is about
transcendence.

We live our lives hovering above the immeasurable distance between the
real and the metaphorical. Just a few feet, as if we’re standing on our own
shoulders. We can see ‘reality’ from where we are, but we can’t touch it.
It’s too through-the-looking-glass for that. We watch ourselves hover there,
exploring what things COULD mean. Not what they DO mean. Because
who could agree on that?

The majority of images I make are multiple exposures. Actually, they are primarily double exposures, because I love juxtaposition and I learn a lot from it. The first exposure reveals and records facets of reality. When I add the second exposure, juxtaposing it with the first (and surprising myself at the synchronicity of it), the two images together lift the now-single image slightly beyond the recording of something. Now, the image hovers just above, just beyond, the documentation of what is “real.”

This hovering transforms the emotions of the single image and invites you
into the double image. There is now space for deeper curiosity about what
is contained there.

Maybe it is a sort of magical realism wherein the power of the emotions in
the image alters reality. I don’t really know.

I like making it. It’s a multidimensional exploration, or at least I hope it is. I
like the idea that maybe, even if it is just for one person and for a single
moment, the mind gets bigger. Curiosity expands and we follow it.
It’s that whole Through the Looking Glass thing.