Many people have said that creating is a way of loving. And this is what my art is about. If I don’t love the work or the process of creating the work, it is flat and without meaning. When the experience of love opens, I know I am in the realm of the world’s heart. This is what I seek as an artist.
The process of UVIVF photography reveals natural fluorescence which occurs any time the subject is exposed to sunlight, but which is usually too overwhelmed with visible light to be distinguished. Working with a strictly ultraviolet light source, all of that obscurity is stripped away, leaving surreal and beautiful luminous hues behind.
The nomads and other Tibetans hold a reverence for the natural world, which ensures that they remain stewards of the land they have lived with for thousands of years. Small pockets of awareness of the land's magic, its sacredness, its deep inner value, still remain.
