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Over 10 years ago I became severely ill and one of the outcomes was that my optic nerve was severely damaged losing over a third of the vision out of each eye. I'm partially blind. This, and the coming face to face with my mortality, profoundly influenced my life and my photographic work. What or how do I see differently from other artists? What can I offer the world? The health issue made me acutely aware of the thin veil that separates life and death, real and unreal, spiritual and material, hope and despair, dreams and reality and I felt that it was important for me to begin exploring these themes in my photography. Dreams are a bridge between our unconscious and conscious selves. A way for our subconscious to speak to us. By following these impulses I discover and get to know myself, what moves me, what scares me, what I'm about. "All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art." - Jorge Luis Borges |
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