About these images:

Many people over the years have asked me how I create my images. To begin with, I get most of my ideas from my dreams; I suffer from insomnia so I do not sleep very well. On those rare occasions when I do sleep, I dream very heavily and vividly. When I wake, I remember not so much the minute details of the dream, but more of the flavor of the dream. This flavor is the beginning point of an image concept. I then take that seed and begin to construct a set as if preparing for a play. I actually have a built-in stage in my current studio because it used to be an old meeting hall. Piece by piece the set begins to take form. I spend many hours sitting in the studio, staring at the set, listening to music and basically waiting for the image to tell me what it needs. This long process is the reason I only shoot about 13 times a year and consequently only produce about 13 images each year.