Musings

On Saturday, June 4th, my new book Edges and Echoes will be launched at Talisman Books and Gallery. It contains a collection of photographs along with some poems in haiku form. Photographs work best, I think, when they are mysterious; in this way they are similar to the mini-puzzles introduced in haiku. Rich, textured, layered meaning is presented economically in both art forms, and both roughly use "rules of thirds" divisions. Finding photographs that connect with one-another in some way - through theme, structure, colour - is a challenge I find enormously compelling. Each two-page spread in the book is composed with a link in mind, and I hope the viewer will find both the literary and visual connections provocative - often playful; leading but not conclusive.