Artist's Statement

I want to tell stories with light and shadow.  As a child I would borrow my mom's VHS-C camcorder and make sketch comedy videos and stop motion animations.  This would spark an interest in the moving image that would haunt me to this day.  Four years ago I gave up a lucrative career as a journeyman electrician to pursue my love of visual storytelling.

My end goal is not to make an image, but to tell a story.  I craft the elements that will communicate to the audience a feeling.  An emotion.  A connection.  Film is a language, and I want to speak it fluently.  I want each scene to tell the story of the film, each shot to tell the story of a scene.  My canvas is a screen, my brush a light bulb, and I want to to paint each and every frame to tell its own tale.  I want to use 130,000 photographs stacked on top of each other for dramatic intent.  I want to speak this language of light and shadow, because it's a language that the whole world understands.