I aim to collapse the metaphoric capacity of the nude with notions of labor, wherein themes of sexuality, mortality, desire and repulsion come together with those of value, economic class and survival.

At the heart of this (my personal labor of making pictures), is an attempt to integrate contradictory aspects of the psyche when dealing with urgent circumstances. These range from the catastrophic to the daily grind. I refer to photos of people cleaning the environment (oil spills, earthquakes) or to photos of myself, spouse and friends performing everyday maintenance activities, like cleaning the toilet, raking the yard, and bathing. The nature of the kind of labor I represent is repetitious, meditative or monotonous, as if nature itself is a series of repetitions, and that perhaps what we are doing today is not that different from what people did 3,000 years ago.