I'm interested in the ordering of photos in which their distinct arrangement or collection creates a new meaning, story or poem. With my books the single image is not to be looked at and analyzed in isolation from the collection as a whole. Instead, the images in the book should be read as a book with a particular order, mood, pace, etc. The book format is a way of processing and contextualizing my experiences into something more symbolic, a way of giving the images new meaning in a collection. The autonomy a book possesses gives power to a seemingly banal confluence of circumstances.

When shooting, I would describe myself as a searcher, investigating the various sorts of personal meanings life may have for me. I try to be as receptive as possible. I go out to the streets without any particular expectations and I shoot whatever messages from the environment are being communicated to me on a deeper psychological level, as if the various environmental stimuli of everyday life are intentionally ‘calling out’ to me with life-lessons of their own. These messages oftentimes can be so compelling that I find myself unable to resist documenting them. I investigate the space around me and literally take what I’ve collected to relocate it into my own space. This causes these images, as a collection, to become something new. I sequence them into book form. Each individual hand-made book gets placed into an ongoing collection. In doing this I attempt to customize my space.