I’ve been asked this a LOT. So I’ll provide a bit of an explanation…
The Broken Still Life series is, in essence, my attempt at reinterpreting some every day objects in our lives. Is there a meaning, method, or madness in how I go about it? No, not necessarily. It’s a few things squashed into one (as evidenced by the outcome of the photos).
First, I naturally tend to study the lines, shades, and presence of an individual object, rather than take in the full surroundings. If you and I were to walk down an aisle of a hardware store, you might be taking in everything around you, whereas I’ll fixate on one dazzling bolt after another. If you fixate on little details like bolts also, congrats – you’re just as whacked in the head as I 
Second, it’s jealousy of 3D artists. Yeah, that’s right, I’m a little jealous. 3D artists such as sculptors inherently get to play with how your eye fixates on something. Traditionally, photographers don’t get to play as much in that way because we are photographing existing objects, and in that realm, liquid doesn’t flow out of the bottom of a bottle. Digital gives me the power to play with perspective and context the same way a 3D artist gets to.
And third, it’s an opportunity to challenge myself creatively. How sparingly can I cut down a piano and still capture the essence of a piano? What elements communicate the experience of swinging? How can I interpret the wholeness of a good book? These are the kinds of questions I try to ask myself as I create these images, and I hope that the results answer them.
