King Monkey and the Infinite Sunshine – on display at Gallery27 in Santa Barbara from August 5th through September 30th 2011. Reception will be held on August 4th 2011 from 5-8pm. Hope to see you there!

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“…With this body of work I want to start conversation about the balance between the natural and the man-made. The way we humans interact with the environments we find ourselves in. What I realized in that jungle though, running with the monkeys, was that there is no distinction between the natural and the man-made. It’s impossible to get lost in the jungle because we are part of the jungle. For all I know the jungle gets lost in us.

Every image in King Monkey and the Infinite Sunshine has traces of nature and/or mankind in them. These elements are portrayed in a certain balance. I am very interested in this concept of balance. Is our planet in neutral stability, like a sphere? Whichever way you turn it it’s balanced within. Are we in positive stability to where however much we pollute and dig and cut around, the planet will eventually always go back to its stable state? Or are we in negative stability and however small of an impact we have on a grand scheme of things this very impact is enough to make the planets stability tumble out of control with zero chance of getting back to stable? My aim with these photographs is to generate thought about balance.”