I Like Trains

click here to buy


People ask me all the time what my art is about. To me, it would seem that the person asking the question is seeking a completely irrelevant answer. I could give a very general sweeping answer covering the wide variety of photographs I have taken (that would constitute my “body of work”) or I could talk about the things I was thinking/seeing when I made an individual photo. I like to think of all of these types of answers as an interesting side note to what the more important question is.

“What do you think it’s about?”

I used to struggle when I was in art school when it came time to do our critiques. We would all put our shiny, freshly printed unframed photos up on the wall and discuss things like content, intent and undoubtedly whether or not and why we liked it. Crit after crit I struggled to talk about the meaning of my work (most of the time I just made it up). My co-founder of the (Lazy Photographer Girls – a whole other entry will be devoted to that if I ever get around to it) and I talked for what seemed like hours about why art couldn’t just look cool.

Well, I believe that it can, which brings us back to the question:

“What do you think it’s about?”

If you are intrigued/moved/inspired/desperate to purchase one of my pieces, there must be a reason for it. I enjoy talking with my viewers about what it is that they see in the work, what about it is speaking to them. Ultimately if YOU take a piece of art home (hopefully one of mine) and put it up on YOUR wall, then perhaps it is about YOU.

Please feel free to leave your comments ☺

LPG Rocks!!!!!