My work in photography is shaped out of a simple interest to experience. Torn between the hooks of duality, I’ve found that it was by working within the constant pull do the thresholds slowly merge as our conscious, worldly experience is informed by Buddha Dharma, and expressed through art.

In processing my own evolution, working within pre-fabricated identities only further propelled the endless cycle of mental incarceration; restricted from a realized freedom. Navigating those past layers in my work, I’m gravitated into exploring a fundamental identity, playing on the interludes between the human condition and our relationship with the causes and conditions which shape our realities. 

While many of my bodies of work begin as journalistic curiosities, I discovered a freedom in the process which lies in long form creation. Photographing at the behest of time, allowing ideas and projects the space to formulate and shape themselves, open to the ever changing ebbs and flows of our own mental dispositions. Conversely, the studio forces you into direct confrontation with the work. Analyzing many past moments of a fluid experience through the stability and tangibility of a photographic print, allows for an ambiguous synchronization of past and present, introducing the unlimited potential to visually rearrange reality. Thus is the challenge and freedom of working in long form merging body, speech, and mind with the entire process, effectively reshaping both our minds and realities.

Studying the Tibetan spoken language motivated me to explore language through pen & ink, where I became inspired by the works of many contemporary Tibetan calligraphers who, with masterful proficiency, maintain integrity in Buddha Dharma, creatively layering depth of message through their own artistic expression.

Utilizing various historical photographic printing processes, I’m driven to experiment in collaboration with multiple mediums unified into a single artwork; presenting traditional in the contemporary, motivated by the direct advice of Acharya Lama Gursam Rinpoche; to explore and photograph our conscious experience in order to benefit many beings. 

As with all of my work, it is simply of my own experience as it evolves,

— a visual debate —

— an active exhibition —

shared with the aim of benefiting others through challenging learned observations and past conditioning, while expanding the creative potential to communicate.