Although I have been predominantly a photographer, my work over the last forty years has been informed by my training as an architect. I studied architecture at the University of California @ Berkeley and graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture and practiced until 1976. In this period I started investigating two feelings:  The first was that architecture was a series of experiences and the second was that what I thought was real had different components much of which were invisible, out of sight.

I lived  and worked as an architect in Europe in the late 60s and it was there that I discovered that certain buildings  induced strong feelings in me. This left a strong impression and when I returned to the U.S. I began trying to incorporate that goal into my architectural design. I believed that every building held an experience and began trying to create them using spaces.

Concurrently I found that not all things were as they initially seemed and that my first take on what was real was often mistaken. When we open our eyes we see what is usually agreed on as reality. I feel that there is something going on beyond this, something that is invisible, beneath the surface, but no less real. It is palpable, kind of like an iceberg which is 90% hidden from view. The unseen is the greater part of reality. The camera's ability to capture that which lies on the surface is the least of its capabilities. I strive to capture that which is alluded to, beneath the surface, invisible and yet, to me, more real than that which is seen.

Now I am beginning to unite architecture with photography. It has led to the design of an installation within an architectural space using my art and elements of light to evoke an experience. As part of the progression toward constructing a ground up building I have created a short movie depicting the feeling of the interior. It is titled, RIDING THE OX, and you can view it below. Turn off the lights, turn up the sound and make it full screen.