Artist Statement, Part Two

Give any common person a camera and tell them to take a meaningful picture. The woman will look all around and search. She might spend hours chasing the world that she will never catch.
Give a professional photographer a camera and the man will look up and down. He will frame his shots of high buildings and zoom in on the plants at his feet. The man will be too focused on the dramatic to notice the world around him.
Now, give a faker a camera: not an artist, but a strict businessman of sorts. He will set up models in designer clothes and train them to look beautiful and appealing. Like Barbie dolls, they will be awkwardly posed in a grotesque display of fake lust and false emotion. These are the worst photos of all because there is nothing real about it.
Finally, give a dreamer a camera: a believer in magic, a risk-taker. The girl will observe. She will walk down the street and feel a pull or a faint desire to stop. As the world catches up with her, she’ll wait for events to unfold. The perfect shot: not staged or manipulated, but full of emotion, raw and real.
These special moments in time did not take place because she took a picture to document it. Her art takes place because of these moments and she respects that. The world moves around us and we are all bystanders.