”Most things are inspiring to me. Whether it’s seeing a dog in a city, a cloud, a stone, a flower, a leaf, a branch, a tree, or a puddle, this can inspire the basis of an image or form a detail in a larger image. What I absorb and what remains etched on my retina is transformed through my filter. Sometimes I turn to books to see what the animal actually looks like: what specifically is it about this particular bird that makes us see that it is a woodpecker?”