These photographs are of miniature environments I’ve created in my studio to portray narrative tableaus. Through them I invite the viewer to wander in places beyond reality.  It is my goal to create environments with this trajectory because I’m continually drawn to articulating slippery transitions that could exist between reality and its edges.
 
These sets are from a series of nearly 100 miniatures. They have been fashioned from sketches using toothpicks, old clothes, blankets, cereal boxes, discounted paints from Home Depot and other stuff from around the house.  They are lit with various types of professional lights then photographed. Some take a few hours to create and some take hundreds. When staging these sets for the camera, I feel completely connected to my surroundings. I hear sound effects inside my head, play, more parts of my brain seem to function, life has direction and purpose, I even get boosts of adrenaline when revelations pop out of nowhere and help me finish an idea.

…Pretend you’re on an archeological dig on an uninhabited foreign planet and you carefully unearth, or un-planet rather, a round box.  Imagination and hope conjure all sorts of possibilities for what could be inside this round box.  Perhaps hidden within it is a new biological species, or something that will make you rich, something that will change the model of the universe, an artifact from God, something that lets you experience the present in four-dimensional space and time, perhaps it’s a gateway? Whatever is inside won’t be as earth shattering as building imaginative bridges to what’s inside… It’s probably just something that fell off your spacecraft, preventing you from ever getting home...   

Hope found through imagination is my favorite human quality.