10,000 Photographs
It’s difficult to cull through thousands of negatives to find a narrative retroactively. However, after a few years of street photography the themes and narratives blur together into one big picture. Individual snapshots are an oddity in their own and even more cryptic when paired with images from a completely different unrelated motif.
The photographs here are candid photographs with no original direction, but ended up being spontaneous, memorable, and rewarding to photograph.
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
Chinese Brush Painting
I dedicated about 2 years of my life and art practices to learn how to paint in the traditional Chinese style. With ink, inkstone, brush, water, and paper, I started to paint and draw calligraphy. At the same time I was learning to speak Mandarin by taking courses in school. Later in life, I would go on to travel to Beijing regularly with my wife. These are a small collection of works I did as a white, western, American embodying the teachings and methods of master painters from the oldest and longest surviving culture thriving today.