2003/2004

_{My role as a photographer is not to perfect reality using camera craftsmanship, but to create my own version of it those scratches beneath the surface and records the unseen essence of life that breathes.}

_{This body of work is about embodiment and subjectivity. What it means to inhabit the body. I invented a process titled 'Ventography' where. I use my breath to activate a breathing aperture to create images. The aperture moves in synchrony to my breathing rhythm to create Ventographs. I breathe light and time onto the surface of the light sensitive material, seizing the unseen life force that sends blood through my veins. The result of the image is a collection of breaths. The images whisper a spiritual essence.  As I act out the process, elements of this inner place of life contribute to the process. A build up of moisture and saliva leave its trace.}  

^{Each image is produced using a certain number of breaths and reflects on the atmosphere of life around me. If I am calm I can enter a more meditative state, my breathing slows down and sometimes I capture a fragment of my surroundings on the negative.  This work merges interior places with exterior, the invisible life force with the visible.}

 ^{Photography has the tradition of capturing life and representing it in a snap shot. With this process, I am capturing interior life. The process of ventography can only be made by the breathing body. A camera cannot produce these types of images, because a camera does not breathe.}