I learned B&W photography as a photographer for the school newspaper in high school in the mid 1970s. I was also a photographer for my undergraduate and graduate institutions as part of my financial aid. While an undergrad, I took my first photography class in the art department. At that point, I turned my attention to very material photography processes, making some up on my own.

Starting in 1987, I have been layering cutouts, leaves, rocks, body parts over pieces of paper as I print in the darkroom. These images use my archive of negatives as starting points for stories that turn any documentation into prose. I then color the images with watercolor, oil, or pencil. It is a celebration of photography's capacity to invent over its capacity to document.