The 100 Day Project #39

Cosmopolitan Sunset

Phoenix, Arizona, 2011

The 100 Day Project, Day 39

I’m drawn to abstraction, especially when it emerges from the ordinary. There’s something compelling about reshaping familiar objects into something unexpected — revealing details we overlook simply because we see them too often.

Here, a sunset is suspended within a wine glass, a small world held inside a larger one. A fleeting moment nested within another as the real sun lowers in the west as I sip a cosmopolitan on a friend’s patio in Phoenix.

After more than fifteen years as a photojournalist documenting people, places, and history as it unfolded, I slowly shifted my practice. Through sustained study of art history, my focus has moved toward quieter moments and details — visual fragments that often get lost in the hustle and distraction of daily experience.

About the 100 Day Project
A global creative challenge where thousands of artists share a piece of their practice every day for one hundred days. I’m joining creatives around the world and inviting you along. Each day, I’ll share a photograph—some recent, some from the archive, some from current work—paired with the story behind it: where I was, who I was with, and why it matters to me.