My personal discovery of the Southwest began along a cornmeal path and blessed by prayer. Over a dozen years ago, on one of my earliest journeys into the Southwest and my first into Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico, I was on a trip that included a renowned and visionary Hopi artist and elder; upon entering the canyon that first time, he paused mindfully to recite a Hopi prayer and spread cornmeal along our path. Consequently, it became for me a path forever changed.
Almost immediately, I began photographing all that I saw and experienced...
From that trip sprang many trips, and I began to regularly journey from my home in the Northeast to the enchanted lands of the Southwest, where the stunning landscapes and ancient sites continued to awe and fascinate me. As I explored further, I came to learn more about the cultural sites that I was visiting and the Indigenous population's sacred and spiritual connections to them as places of their ancestors. As such, my photographs began to evolve into an homage of sorts, a celebration of the beauty and endurance of these amazing architectural structures and their cultural significance. It is my goal that this sense of respect and admiration is clearly expressed in these images.
Fortunately, over the years, some of my images have found their way into the public eye and have have been shown in galleries across the country, such as The Studio Door in California, Modern Visual Arts Gallery in Pennsylvania, and Fotofoto Gallery in New York, as well as being featured in the pages of Archaeology Southwest Magazine. Now, I am making select prints available for purchase through this website.
On a personal level, these images represent brief windows of time captured along the winding path that began all those years ago and which still leads me toward these unique pilgrimage destinations, center places that continually draw me in from the margins. Each photograph exists as a lasting document, a permanent tether connecting myself to fleeting moments of visitation as I lovingly embrace the sacred landscapes of the American Southwest...
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