In a musical canon, two lines of identical counterpoint interact to create a harmonic progression that exists only in their interaction. Likewise, a bent rush and its reflection or shadow ghost a new form that doesn’t exist without this light driven interaction. In my collaborations with other artists we invent things that neither of us could have imagined without the other.

The alchemically generated apparitions resulting from the combination of elements, visual, musical, spiritual and cultural is what I seek in my artistic practice.

When I compose music, the impulses and ideas emerge from a receptive study of external, historical sources and are powered by an internal, spiritual ambition. The sources of my musical intuitions are ephemeral and in constant motion and it is an aggressive and intensive effort to wrestle this intuition into form.

My work in photography starts with the ambition that carries me to my subject and ends with the internal receptive quiet necessary to encounter my subject on its own terms. With traditional cameras and lenses I bring myself in close to my subjects. With remote, motion activated cameras I can capture the apparitions that can't tolerate my presence.

My work in theater is entirely collaborative, unquiet and teeming. I imagine theater works architecturally with many stations, situations, intersecting hallways and hidden alcoves. There are people everywhere and they all inhabit the same structure. I don't have the power or craft to convert this into a single recurring form by myself and so enlist, or am enlisted, in a team or family which converts architecture into ritual.