My photography draws on the range of experiences I encountered during the early years of my life. I was born on a farm in the Amish area of southeastern Pennsylvania. After high school I joined the Navy and spent a year on a patrol boat base in Vietnam and three years on ships in the Pacific Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. In the years following my Navy enlistment I hitchhiked and traveled across North America. With the skills learned in art school, photography has become the medium through which I express my observations about the fragility of life. With my photography I construct photomontages using images taken in different areas of the US, Canada, and Mexico. Drawing heavily upon elements from Mexican Indian religious art and retablos, I juxtapose these images in contrasting layers to create a sense of peril, symbolizing life's vulnerability. My goal is to form an improbable, yet possible, view of the world characterized by an aura of mystery and spiritual narrative.