My body of work often explores the slippage of what is seen on the surface with what is kept hidden. The slippage is often examined as a dichotomy yet these pairings are not simple oppositions. They reciprocate and help create one another, in the same way that light and darkness cannot be understood without one another. We are as much ourselves by what we do as by what we don't do.
As a Los Angelino by birth I have an affinity with the freeways that cut through our cities and hover over us. I have spent a lot of my life on the freeways, most of the time as a passenger. And as a passenger the movement of the car was lulling, the effect was like the rocking of a child by its mother. I slept and daydreamed in the car; I sketched cars during traffic jams, I gazed at my own reflection in the window and scanned the passing surroundings. I often stared at the moon and stars and prayed. During all that time my family was in the car with me and thousands shared the road as well; to me being in a car is about quiet moments of isolation lost in a public space.
I would like my photographs to evoke/provoke a demonstrative response from the viewer -- a cathartic release from the everyday. Pinch a nerve to cause a response. Give you a jolt to make you catch your breath.