People Say Photographs Don't Lie, Mine Do.

I Have Always Gone To Nature, Since I Was A Kid. I Was Brought Up In The Woods, I Did Not Have Lots Of Friends, So I Spent Lot Of Time Alone. My Mother Always Loved To Live In The Forest; She Loved Gardens, Birds And Nature And Taught Me A Deep Respect For That. She Taught Me About Growing Food And Vegetables And To Take Care Of Animals. They Also Have Feelings. So Nature Was Always Something Sacred For Me, The Place I Can Go, Meditate And Pray. It's Like A Church In The Nature For Me.

I Believe Michael [jackson] In A Sense Is An American Martyr. Martyrs Are Persecuted And Michael Was Persecuted. Michael Was Innocent And Martyrs Are Innocent. If You Go On Youtube And Watch Interviews With Michael, You Don't See A Crack In The Facade. There's This Purity And This Innocence That Continued [throughout His Life].

It's Much Harder To Work For Yourself, By Yourself, Than To Create Work For A Gallery, Because There Are No Limits And You Can Do Anything You Want. It's Always Easier When You Have A Parameter, When You Have A Limit. You Can Work Within The Limit And Push It And Walk The Line, But When You're Given Absolutely No Limits, It's Harder. You Must Really Think. It's More Challenging.

Just As Renaissance Artists Provided Narratives For The Era They Lived In, So Do I. I'm Always Looking Beyond The Surface. I've Done That Ever Since I First Picked Up A Camera.

Then I Got This Idea In My Head That Magazines Were Like A Gallery And If You Got Your Magazine Page Ripped Out And Someone Stuck It On Their Refrigerator, Then That Was A Museum – Someone’s Private Museum.