Artist Statement: As a poet and photographer, I explore the connections I find between the written and the visual arts, seeking their rhythms and gaps.Within the majesty of our western landscape lie the small and complex shapes and beings that give it texture, life, breath. I am drawn to what reveals itself to us minutely, intermittently, wondrously: night owl, the pollen-grazed moth, river bird catching flight. Within the malleable earth, how easy to overlook what is most tender, most brief.

I am drawn now to the work of photographers like Yamamoto Maoso whose delicate shapes are barely alight on the photograph’s edge. The work of photography, and poetry, as I understand it now, is archival, weft in their weavings with our own threads of memory, loss, love. I often photograph birds, discovering metaphors within their flight, their repose that bring me solace and quiet joy. And hope. How lucky to witness a single heron raising its wings to the winter sun. Or to catch the beauty of intimacy in two doves entwined on a branch I could barely see, but did.