Having artistic aspirations and not being able to draw a straight line may incline the less despairing of us to pick up a camera.  Appropriating the traditional painterly genre of Still Life tenuously provides the sense of creating from nothing, of "making" rather than "taking."  As inspiration for this portfolio, I draw on the 17th century Dutch and Spanish masters of Still Life such as Adriaen Coorte and Juan Sanchez Cotan, whose works often feature simple, everyday and frequently ephemeral objects depicted in austere environments.

      The term Still Life is essentially oxymoronic and in this body of work I look to animate that stillness by removing identifiers of the quotidian nature of the objects.  By careful placement of one type of fruit or vegetable in empty, graphic space, my intent is to add narrative to formal structure.  The photographic still life, in its insistence on the reality of the object, is able to add narrative in a way that a painting cannot.  The title for this body of work, Still / Life, reflects that intent.