biology

a brief statement to accompany my recent photography:

This body of work is part of an ongoing investigation of life. Up close, living beings have a certain intensity that I just can’t feel from a distance. The veins bulge, the crevices ooze, everything rises and falls, and circulation pulses through everywhere. We are beautiful, repulsive, and erotic all at once. When I look away, I find a world that is far too dry, contained, and civilized, in which we are rarely conscious of our vitality. I want to find hard proof that life does exist.