I suppose I would like to think of myself as a student of the universe. Sometimes, I’ll fall into fits of delusional grandeur, thinking I’ll be able to figure it all out. Of course, that kind of “search for the meaning of the everything” mentality can be useful for artists. Or at least that’s what artists would like people to think…

In any case, this pursuit has given me a diverse history. My educational background has nothing to do with photography, as I have degrees in English and Astrophysics. My previous endeavors include playing in a rock band, being an editor for a motorcycle magazine, teaching English in Poland, and co-owning a gallery.

Through all of my experiences, I’ve had a constant fixation on art. And photography has emerged as the perfect medium for me. I perceive it as a kind of welding between the instinctual and the logical. A photographic composition usually starts as an intuitive process, and then progresses into the technical aspects of the lens selection, the camera settings, and so on…all the way through the processing and printing of the photograph.

I’d like to think that my photography is less about being a representation of the world, and more about how we can creatively interpret the world. A photograph asks us to draw patterns out of the existence around us. This is something, in fact, that our brains are doing all the time. And what can be so engaging about a photograph is we can see something in addition to (or even something in place of) the reality of the situation when the image was taken.