We narrate our lives through our documents, our photographs and videos.  A family's 
happiness can be charted by the bulk of family documents (wedding photographs, 
holiday photographs, etc.) that they have accumulated over a period of time.

Over the last two years I have been seeking to understand and revaluating American 
ideals of God and Family by taking possession of these ideals, breaking them apart 
and putting them back together. I have actively used the tools of photographic 
history, the faith-based proposals that began in the Modernist period of photography 
in the late 1950's: the idea that through taking pictures I can learn something about 
myself and the world and the appropriation of vernacular photography of Post 
Modernism to create a genealogy that is simultaneously possible and impossible.

I have set out in my various photographic projects to understand the two halves of my 
own history: the history of my photographic forefathers: the great adventurers who 
lit out for the mountains and the highways, and established the long tradition of 
photographic exploration of the significant landscape, the strangely familiar face, 
the places one would like to call their own.  In this vein, I am not simply appropriating 
imagery, or rephotographing someone else's picture, I am making things my own in the 
process of photographing them. 

I see my photography as a way of catching up, carving a place for myself in the 
American photographic tradition and narrating a new life for myself, building a 
genealogy that is based on cherished family pictures as well as an imagined history 
that never existed. 

I really like what Emerson says:
"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is 
the soul of the whole; …to which every part and particle is equally related…. The act 
of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, 
are one.