Artist's Statement Visitors to my website, I would like to take you on an artist's journey through the 100 mm macro lens of my camera. My images are what create nightmares. My images are also, what heaven must consist of. My photographs are abstractions of fragments of nature isolated from the greater environment. I hope to make a connection with my images to help assist in holding the viewers attention. The relationships that interest me are both biological and aesthetic, and involve the study of ambient lighting. I would like you to see beyond what your conditioned to see, to perceive the subtle and intricate interrelationships that shape a macro world. The tiny spiders sitting on silken ladders in their webs most of the time appear invisible. If you come face to face with a spider magnified through my lens, I can guarantee you that the hair on your arms will stand on its edges. A spider in its natural habitat can provoke true terror. One can see how insects are frightened to death mummified in the spider’s network of hideous gluey secretions and viciously consumed. The horror of such a starling vision makes you feel frightfully queasy. On the other hand, to be able to witness such an act is a wondrous experience. I hope to never lose my childhood sense of wonder and capacity for visual observation. The entire macro world is not visible to an ordinary viewer. What a shame that is. Pick up a macro lens and you too will be able to visit and experience a grand and versatile world.