ARTIST STATEMENT:
“EDGE OF THE POND”

I’ve been walking around ponds in the Boston area parks for over twenty years, usually with my camera. It's a good way for me to stay present. I’ve watched people running, walking, sitting; children playing; and the landscape, land and water, always changing.

As time has passed, I have begun to let go of familiar ways of seeing and pay more attention to scenes I once ignored. I have found balance and beauty in reflections, visual confusions, accidental comings-together, debris, and castoffs.

Most recently, I have focused my attention on the edge of the Pond, the boundary between water and land, the place where one thing turns into another. My series “The Edge of the Pond” captures these haphazard assemblages. In particular, I have noticed movement and light in the water; the reflections of low hanging branches and shrubs; and the sky with clouds and, occasionally, sun. This echoes my instinct that life is considerably more complex and nuanced than I usually assume.

I delight in the questions – about perspective, reflection and, in a sense, reality – inherent in these images. What is “up” and what is “down”?  What is “real” and what is reflected?  It suits my sense of humor to ask these questions, to invite us to slow down, and to look deeply into these images to find answers.