compulsion

perhaps love is just a disorder without cure.

and, it's strange (and perhaps somewhat metaphoric) that my cat always feels compelled to scratch at the mirror to get to my reflection even though I'm standing right behind him.

autoportrait 10/22/2009

smile

sometimes it makes me sad that people don't.
(top: N train; bottom: blue line; 10/2009)

sequence #4

i like these single shot sequences; they make me pay attention and see things i normally don't. (Blue Line; 10/2009)

carnivale

at myself the camera lens can be a strange and scary mirror.
(autoportrait circa 1989)

clarity (sequence #3)

then moments like this - when i met my friends' 2 year old daughter for the very first time - they give me clarity.

change (jen #2)

those rare, magical moments - when the other person lowers her/his walls and I see the essence of who s/he is and how s/he feels - they change something in me.

connection (me #4)

It's good too, to love your own skin, but you can't make a connection with it.
(autoportraits circa 1990, reworked in 2009)