white poplars, 2008
I am a photographer and carpenter living on the NW coast of Washington state. I make the cameras and much of the equipment used to make the images presented here. The two interests mesh well in other ways, as building around the Olympic Peninsula has given me the chance to be in many of the spectacular places here in the cold, rainy and harsh offseason- or in other words when the area really shines. My work is not strictly literal, but nonetheless grounded in cycles of recovery, the coast of storms and seasons, and the landscape of industry and man. Forgiven the constant supervision of sun, such places can flourish sparely like a 3 line poem of isolation, color and time:
When the winter chrysanthemums go,
there’s nothing to write about
but radishes.-Matsuo Basho