In the early nineties I began to photograph in Eastern Europe. I was fascinated by the atmosphere of suspended time caused by the isolation of the iron curtain. I witnessed many changes taking place in the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution. Czech author, Milan Kundera, declares that the Czech word lítost has no exact translation in other languages. He describes lítost as, "...a feeling as infinite as an open accordion, a feeling that is the synthesis of many others: grief, sympathy, remorse, and an indefinable longing." Many changes took place in the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution. I witnessed a culture in transition and I found myself transformed by my experiences there. The changes effected both positive and negative results. I found myself photographing with a sense of lítost, nostalgia and regret for the things, both good and bad that would disappear under the onslaught of change



I am also interested in investigating elements of wabi – sabi in the landscape. The tenets of wabi – sabi include: intrinsic simplicity, intuition rather than logic, acceptance of the inevitable, the value or beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, the inconspicuous or overlooked detail, that nature reclaims manmade elements in the end, and that things are either devolving towards, or evolving from, nothingness.