A still from Proximate Cause
They are written down and when the time comes where the ideas feel right, I come back to them for further development.
worrying about how or why I was doing it is certainly my preference; full immersion in the moment and always creating with a sense of urgency.
Looking back on my work over the years I can see how a lot of my work is very responsive to my environment, meaning I am influenced by experience and the places I am in, the decisive moment in a way. Coupled with this I have been keeping a journal of the crazy and vivid dreams I’ve had all my life. These have been a great source for everything from photographic works to artists books, and most recently has influenced the aesthetic of my video works. When I get an idea, I work all the angles until it is finished, it might end up a book, or it might end up a video, I never know.
Photography was my choice as the main form of my artistic expression, though it may seem more rigid, with a stricter set of rules than most art forms, I like the discovery process each photograph comes with, and because of its rigid processes there are more rules to be broken. I believe this is what lead me, quite organically, to video production; I can still make images, I can filter and abstract them just as easily, and its the discovery process I enjoy with each video. Plus, I enjoy experimenting with the moving image and sound too.
You are a multidisciplinary artist, you have worked using drawings and photography too: in what manner other media influences your videomaking?
You have also produced a video entitled "Slide", where the concept of landscape is revisited under an original point of view: what was your inspiration for it?
When I first attended art school, I took classes in all art forms; photography, life drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture. Getting my hands dirty and making art expressively without
This video really came about after I spent a month traveling through Japan. I did what I usually do when I travel which is shoot and capture anything and everything which takes my