These photographs were made on locations in the state of Maine in the US. I work after the sun goes down, with a variety of knock-down structures of aluminum framing, ripstop light diffusers that cover the framework and 20′ x 30′ of ground, a remotely-triggered camera attached to roller bearings on a crossbeam to work as an X/Y plotter to gather images that are later knitted together in post-production, and portable battery packs and lights triggered wirelessly. My friends and family members are my models. Though I consider these images to be tied thematically to ideas about unnatural man in natural environments, in varying states of ecstasy and enveloped in narratives about the struggle for meaning and placement, I still believe they are portraits of people in irresolvable states. I have named this series Hierophanies in reference to the term coined by Mircea Eliade to identify the tears in the fabric of profane time-bound existence to the sacred time-unbound existence that exists behind it.
My work was published in Eyemazing Magazine last year. I at 46 years old, and I live in Portsmouth, NH.
