“I spend a lot of time in vintage auto salvage yards and boatyards where I discover incredible visual elements that inspire me the same way as do the great abstract painters. I hunt for this wild art, looking for patterns, color, texture & composition in subjects both man-made and natural; embellished by chance and patinated by nature, with an unspoken history of random events that can only be guessed or imagined. There is no reference to the identity or the scale of what I photograph. The abstract imagery coaxes a personal interpretation contingent upon the viewer’s imagination.” – C E “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau “My Farrago series is comprised of images made by layering abstract details of found objects. The surfaces of the original subjects are, themselves layered; exposing through deterioration, the layers of paint, rust and patina that over years have revealed their history. I take the layering a step further combining rusty car fenders with boat hulls; dumpsters with broken glass, etc. to create abstract images from an improbable fusion of actual objects.” – C E “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas “I am naturally drawn to found objects; their juxtoposition and relationship as still lifes; as well as the aesthetics of wabi-sabi. Recently I have been piloting a drone, creating aerial landscapes with a new perspective, often visually akin to my abstract vignettes of found objects.” – C E “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper”. – W.B. Yeats “Recently,I discovered the unintentionally artistic abstract patterns made by the men who are constantly moving, sorting, and piling various gravels using heavy equipment. They create designs in the earth; the beauty of which, I assume, they are quite oblivious, as their unwitting artistry can only be appreciated from above. The result is the Gravel Pit Series.” – C E “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust