Pain has a kind of clarity that comfort doesn't. These images came out of a period where I was between things, out of one chapter but not yet into the next. I wasn't setting out to make a body of work. Looking back, though, I can see the thread running through it all.

What I kept coming back to was the way beauty and suffering can coexist. Neither one cancels out the other. Sometimes they sit together awkwardly, sometimes seamlessly, but they are both there. That's probably the most honest thing I can say about this work.