Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.

I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.

I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.