the latest news!

12.29.08 - I've expanded the Blog portion of my website to include photoblogs from my recent trips!

12.02.08 - Wowwwwwwwwww. My entry placed #5 out of over 12,000 entries in the ArtSync Magazine Cover Contest for its inaugural issue in March of 2009. The top 10 selections will be given a small special feature in that issue. The "Art Magazine of North Carolina" will be a quarterly publication that features up-and-coming artists of all genres from all over the state. My deepest and most humble gratitude to the judges!

10.09.08 - The Journal of Rural Mental Health, published by the National Association of Rural Mental Health included in their latest issue, a photo essay of my rural work, titled the "Rural Condition". My deepest gratitutde to Amy Hudnall and Beth Hudnall Stamm, thank you!.

09.30.08 - All three of my entires were accepted to the Cary Photographic Artists 1st Annual Juried Show. The show will take place at Cary Senior Center - 120 Maury Odell Place, Bond Park off High House Road Cary, North Carolina. The show will run October 2-31, 2008 and the reception will take place on Friday, October 31, 2008 from 5:30pm-8:00 pm.

09.28.08 - ArtSync Magazine just gave me a weekly spotlight feature on their website, thanks guys!

08.25.08 - I have one entry accepted in the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association National Juried Show. The opening reception will take place on October 18, 2008 at the Richard Lowe Evans' Gallery, located at 420 West Main Street in Blue Ride, Georgia and will run through November 14, 2008.

08.15.08 - For the third year in a row, I'm truly honored to announce I've been juried into the Visual Art Exchange's 19th Annual N.E.W Juried Show in Raleigh, North Carolina. It's a relatively difficult show to get into (they accepted 43 out of 437 entries) and I'm thankful to have made the cut again. The reception will be held on Friday, September 5, 2008 from 6-9pm and the entire exhibit will run from September 5-25, 2008. The VAE is located on 325 Blake Street.

08.06.08 - One of my photographs has been featured in the August/September issue of Everywhere Magazine, in the article "The World's Most Inspirational National Parks". I'm totally stoked, thanks guys!

07.31.08 - I have two photographs showing at the Arts Council of Moore County Arts Festival in Southern Pines, North Carolina. The opening ceremony will be on August 1, 2008 from 6-8pm at the Campbell House Galleries on 482 E. Connecticut Ave in Southern Pines. The show will last through August 29, 2008.

07.27.08 - After 2 1/2 years, I decided to give the website a bit of a tweak. It's easier to manage and you should be able to find everything pretty easily. And oooooh...you can even scroll through the panoramic photographs (I know, the little things excite me)! If there are any issues with the site, please do not hesitate to contact me.

04.23.08 - Two of my photographs are on display at the Fine Arts League of Cary 14th Annual Juried Show. The show is located at Hope Community Church on 821 Buck Jones Road in Raleigh, North Carolina. The reception will take place on April 25, 2008 6-9pm and will run through June 14, 2008.

02.25.08 - I have one piece showing at the Associated Artists of Winston-Salem Dimensions 2008 National Juried Show. Their gallery is located on 301 West 4th Street and the opening takes place on tbe evening of April 10, 2008 between 5-7pm. I'm very flattered that this is the second year running I've been accepted to this showing. The show runs through May 23, 2007.

...and it is who and what we leave behind, as opposed to how we represent ourselves, that serves as a lasting testament to the true identity that rests in our hearts and souls. No matter our caste and physical lot in life, it is the integrity of the spiritual and emotional condition that influences how we spend our time in this world. Therefore we are not defined by goals and accomplishsments, but instead by our choices within the real environment in which we live with so much beyond our comprehension and grasp.

We do not live in a vacuum and are collectively and individually judged by our actions, regardless if we accept responsibility or are even cognizant of their impact. Human history is littered with disastrous choices spawned by lack of conscientiousness but also filled with uplifting tales of graciousness and goodwill. Our personal stories are as inspirational and interwoven as they are devastating and dividing and it is the variety, longevity, and depths of our close relationships, as well as our treatment of total strangers, that reflect the way we choose to live. Behind every WHAT? AND HOW? is the inevitable question, WHY? What we create and leave behind, no matter its time of discovery, becomes a puzzle of artifacts for historians and archaelogists alike to piece together. In the answer, it is not only revealed how our frame of being steers perception and each corresponding action, but often how preciously little time is spent to truly understand the life that surrounds us. For what we do speaks louder to what lies in within us than any word we might muster.

A New Jersey native, I have kept residence in the southern United States for the last sixteen years and currently practice as an architectural designer in Raleigh, North Carolina. My personal background directly influenced my forays into architecture, photography, design, and writing. I feel fortunate and blessed to have the opportunity to creatively regard our various environments - daily observing, reflecting, and impacting the world in which we live.

It took three decades to condition myself not to shy away from the results of personal creativity, for they are transient, yet permanently documented mental markers within an environment at a precise moment and time. With each day I eagerly look forward to each new discovery within and without of myself.