Statement - roman noir ... "Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is a catastrophe", Roland Barths wrote. Just as the medium of film has the ability to simulate motion through stop animation, photography puts the dead and the living on the same plane through it's cessation of motion. Photography reproduces the images of both the animate and inanimate in such a way as to allow them to be viewed as if they were the same. There are issues of anthropomorphism seemingly inherent in photography and in the interaction between the technological device of the camera and our sympathetic human tendency to want to see everything as personified. In these images work with the figures of both the inanimate and animate, hoping to bring the one close to the viewer while pushing the other away. In her book ,On Photography, Susan Sontag writes "That photography is the only art that is naitively surreal..." As surrealism is of and by dreams and the subconscious, any surrealism within my work is the median between my dreams and those of my camera. My sight and vision are subject to the physics of my medium as well as to the technologies of our cultures media of communication and perception. The dolls and their environments are a composite of my subconscious and the symbols and technologies of my environment. Photography's culturally accepted veracity and impartiality has always been it's strength. While juxtaposing images of different scales and purported reality, I hope to downplay the event of the photograph without completely dispelling it. I am looking for a spot where truth and fiction balance and illuminate each other. It is not my intention to fool the viewer into a literal interpretation of my fictions and I hope they will question the non-fiction.