About the Show
My parents gave me my first camera when I was about ten years old launching my lifelong love for photography. Over the decades, I have taken tens of thousands of images and photography has come to affect both how I see and experience the world. When I have my camera with me, I am always on the lookout for something interesting or beautiful. Because I am actively looking for interesting and beautiful things, I find them. As a result, I have come to believe that the world is an infinitely interesting and beautiful place. The act of seeking and finding beauty is a way of paying close attention to all that surrounds me. Without photography, I would simply forget to look, and I would miss so much.
The images in this collection reflect my recognition that I am just one of billions of humans on one small planet orbiting our sun. The sun is just one star among billions in the Milky Way galaxy, which is just one of billions of galaxies in the universe. A lifespan is but an eyeblink on the timescale of life on earth and insignificant on the timescale of the universe. Precisely because our lives are infinitesimal and fleeting, every brief moment matters. The photographs in this collection honor irreplicable, transient, and precious moments in space and time. Tiny snowflakes on a frond of ornamental grass that melted within minutes. A flower ready to unfold from a bud. A moment of serenity tending a garden. A stark reminder of our own mortality. A moment of transcendence when our place in the universe is simultaneously perfectly clear and wildly ambiguous. The joy of dance. Shifting light. All moments made vital because they, and we, are impermanent.
A photograph records a tiny sliver of space and time, quite literally preserving a few Pixels in Spacetime. For that reason, each of the images in this collection is titled according to its spacetime coordinates, specifically latitude, longitude, elevation and date. The images span about 280 degrees of longitude, 80 degrees of latitude and 14,600 feet of elevation. They also span about a decade, four continents and ten countries.
This exhibition will be held at the Anderson Enrichment Center in Saginaw, MI from May 18- July 27, 2022. Hours are 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday.
