Artist Statement
The very act of witnessing an object is a profoundly spiritual gesture.
Whether it is a blazing sunset, or a single, fallen leaf resting on the snow, is the creation process of the Universe entirely complete unless the object has been observed and thus acknowledged? A Buddhist koan ponders the existence of a tree not observed in the forest. Quantum physicists theorize the idea of “super positioning” and the aliveness of “Schrödinger's cat”.
However, witnessing is not a simple objective activity.
For it involves experiencing an object through both a uniquely personal set of sensory inputs, and a lifetime of acquired constructs, which neuro scientists explain we utilize to “imagine” our own idiosyncratic version of “Reality”.
My art involves capturing an image with a camera, and then deliberately processing that image, until there is a sense of harmonic alignment with both the original object and my own personal witnessing experience. The final result (I would like to think) is a furthering of the original Universe’s creation process, and (perhaps in some small way) an expansion of the object’s potentiality of Being.