"I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me."
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"I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing."
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"I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects."
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"I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will this kind of transcendent communication into existence. I have to be open and truly present, and if I am lucky, grace descends. My best photographs are an honest collaboration, and when the viewer also connects, I feel the circle is complete."
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"Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it."
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"I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves."
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