There is a clash between lightness and darkness in my work, and wedged between that is beauty personified. In my work beauty is the catalyst for this clash and I seek to capture it's form in all things. The human form is just one of my interests and these photographs are some of the examples of how I view light reflected from the human form.

I see the nude as the focus and the object of admiration and beauty. Beauty is pleasure regarded as the quality of an object or in other words, pleasure objectified. The nude is an ancient fertility object or an object of lust. It's power lies in it's sexuality and it's beauty. My eye fixes upon the nude, and all the effects it produces in our minds are easily regarded as powers or qualities of that image. In working with the nude, I struggle to achieve the psychological impact and intensity of life and death. All things must pass, grow old and die. Beauty is a fleeting moment of time captured here in my work forever.

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