STATEMENT
We encounter subliminal or subtle suggestions in our daily life and we make the erroneous assumption that our thoughts and behaviors are rationally constructed. In reality, we are influenced by all manner of seemingly irrelevant information, including inference and expectation. We conjure up our personal story from bits and pieces of juxtaposed flotsam we encounter. Nothing in our existence is an absolute truth and certainly, nothing about a photograph is truth. The moment the frame of the camera is placed around a selected portion of a scene, there is an implication made, a myth created, and a new truth assumed. This truth is not based on the image alone, but rather what the viewer brings to the image. The viewer accepts this bit of visual information, feeds it into his mental data bank, and uses it to create his own truth. Frequently, I reduce a scene to its smallest denominator in an attempt to find the essence of an existing tableau and to suggest to the viewer that there is something more, some secret or untold truth to be discovered. This small "thing" becomes metaphor for the notion that the "part is as important as the whole". I work from the concept that every object contains the entire universe, that the past is gone, the future is not here yet and the only thing we have is the moment. A tiny portion of a scene holds the entire truth and the whisper of this truth expands to an imagined story. These "snippets" become a mosaic for the bigger picture and to the notion that everything is connected. My images are not visual facts, but mere intimations.
I love the serendipity or a sliver of suggestion in a random object. I reduce my images to their smallest visual denominator, but the entire story is held within subtle references and suggestions. This notion of "less is more" and "elusive truth" has become the philosophical base of my photography. I consider my images to be visual Haiku.
I refer to these images as "snippets". The Free Dictionary defines a snippet as 1) A bit, scrap or morsel; 2) A small or mischievous person. In my youth and because of my small size, I was frequently called a little "snippet" by my family.