The Walk to Paradise Garden, a photograph by W. Eugene Smith, is the incentive for this body of work. His photograph of two children walking from the shadows of the woods into the light of the day was for Smith the restart of life after a horrible war.

My work is using the same analogy of darkness into light. While Smith’s image was made at the end of the war and the world was starting over, my imagery was made while we are still firmly entrenched in a war that seems to have no end in sight.

While there seems to be no end in sight, the collective conscience is shifting towards the idea of an end, thus the light we are being strongly drawn towards from the seemingly never ending darkness.