Artist Statement
Creating images through photography has always been a passion of mine. As I mature both personally and professionally my photographs more and more reflect the evolution (or revelation??) of my own passions, with all its varied meanings.* Whether the feeling is love, fervor, desire, or suffering, it is my hope that the images kindle in the viewer a passion from within.
*Definition of P A S S I O N according to Webster's Dictionary
1. The enduring of inflicted pain, tortures, or the like; (a) The suffering
of Christ on the cross, of his sufferings between the night of the Last
Supper and his death. (b) The sufferings of a martyr; martyrdom.
2. One of the gospel narratives of the passion of Christ.
3. State of capacity of being affected by external agents or forces.
4. Feeling; emotion. One of the feeling natural to all men and women, as fear, hate, love joy; these emotions collectively.
5. Violent of intense emotion; emotional excitement of agitation.
6. (a) Rage; wrath, desire; lust. (b) Ardent affection for one of the opposite or same sex; love. (c) Sexual desire; lust.
7. An object of love, deep interest, or zeal.
Passion, fervor, ardor, enthusiasm, zeal, mean intense emotion compelling action. Passion often implies an emotion that stirs one to the depths, as love or hate, but it may also be used more abstractly; fervor implies an emotion that burns with a glow and shows itself in prayer, preaching etc; ardor, and emotion like leaping flames, intense but not always persistent; enthusiasm comes close to ardor, but always implies an objective or cause that is pursued with devotion; zeal, even more than enthusiasm, implies energetic and unflagging activity that manifest one's devotion to a cause or an end.