From an Interview with APERTURE in September, 1998

“There’s a Native American saying, “Even rocks have souls.” I too believe that everything has a place and worth, even inanimate objects. Rocks come out of the crust of the earth, say from a volcanic eruption, they take the shape you see in my pictures, and then over time they become dust. Human beings are the same; we come out of a womb, but we become dust too. We have a different time frame, but eventually the rocks and I will meet. That’s when these pictures are happening. Rocks become more than just rocks; they speak to me. For a moment the flesh and the rock meet and complement each other, like a discussion between the two, back and forth. The rocks talk to me, tell me things. The rocks in the photographs tell a story…
I use a flashlight as my source of light…I like the physical aspect of making the photographs this way – it takes up to forty-five minutes…The flashlight is like a paintbrush in that it enables me to be selective of what to include in the picture. And the rocks become alive when illuminated this way.”

Medium:
Selenium toned gelatin silver prints

Format: 18x24” and 30x48”