These black-and-white photographs begin in natural and built environments, yet places are not the subjects. Familiar environments become the point of departure for photographs in which relationships of form, tone, space, and energy are more compelling than description.

A shoreline, wall, reflection, or architectural fragment may retain its identity, yet its role shifts from subject to element within the composition. Recognition becomes incidental.

Visual energy is driven by graphic simplicity. Energy may arise through reduction and compression, through the accumulation of marks or through the interaction of competing forms. Pressure builds. Space carries weight.

The work is unified by a way of seeing, regardless of what stands before the camera. Water, natural and built environments are organized through the same visual language. Each photograph begins with a moment when the world simplifies.

Abstraction emerges from seeing the world differently.