My work presents complex visual ambiguities, perceptually bridging painting and photography. For the past eight years my artistic endeavors have involved photographing and digitally narrating Southeast Asian folklore.

After intensive research, I travel to Asia with a storyboard of the scenes to be created. Once there, I photograph local actors, dancers and lay people in key postures representing characters from the tales. In addition, I photograph architecture, landscapes, and other objects essential to the story.

Another aspect of the field operation is to photograph and/or scan various bits of paintings, mold, old pieces of cloth and paper that add texture and depth to the final project. These elements become digital building blocks, which will be layered into painterly photomontages.

Back in New York I layer these photographic and sampled images one on top of another meticulously erasing and softening these bits of information to bring a sense of impermanence and the passing of time into the work.

The final presentation is generally dye-jet printed on Crepe de Chine silk with handkerchief rolled edges, while a few are ink-jet prints on paper.

The over all effect is somewhere between photography and painting, paying homage to the indigenous folk vernacular with a feeling of antiquity. However the techniques, digital photography, the application of sampling and printing are all very contemporary.