Emotional Transmutation and the Landscape. People often tell me that my photographs are deeply calming. They look at the sweeping horizons, the stillness of the tides, and the minimalist space, assuming the work was created during moments of pure, unruffled serenity. The truth is much more complex and far more human. When I look at […]

Visual Koans and the Practice of Stillness. There is a long-standing tradition in Buddhist poetry of stripping away the noise of the world until only the quiet truth of the present moment remains. In Zen practice, a koan—an unanswerable riddle or paradox—serves a very specific purpose: it is designed to short-circuit the analytical mind. It […]