The ability to live in peace with the truths that define us also enables us to transcend the flesh that traps us. To revel in both is life’s consummate achievement.

Human sexuality is woven into the fabric of our being. Denying it is a greater sin than any doctrine that forbids it. The consequences are inevitable.

A luminous soul congeals along the edges of the body, which remains trapped. The statement here is the triumph of spirit over flesh.

As we peel away the layers, what we find are traits common to all of humanity, albiet from differing perspectives.

Sex and love are sometimes in conflict, and the meaninglessness of one’s relationship supercedes the sexuality it provides.

One of life’s great ironies is that the harder we push to achieve absolute control over our lives, the farther away we get. The androgenous figure drives this point home, cigarette in hand.

This photograph is a celebration of independence from societal oppression as a male bodybuilder softens the edges…if just for an evening out on the town.

Like the pyramids, the beauty of the physical world cannot withstand the forces of nature. The supporting clamps underscore this irony.

When there is nothing inside but a thirst for riches at any and all cost, there is a concurrent price to pay for the suffering it causes…both inside and out.

Prejudice regarding sexual preference can never be understated; particularly when the people vilified are willing to fight for the freedoms of those who condemn them.

In the end, it is how we live our lives that define the substance of our existence. Taking this for granted makes the brief time spent on earth a mixed blessing.

A female struggles to find her way down the metaphoric cross of Christ; a struggle all women feel wwhen trying to assert independence and strength in a society that is often in conflict with this journey.

How blessed we are when sexual role models are challenged and the results are as arresting as they are beautiful.

This photograph dramatizes the feelings of irrelevance and invisibility, and how important it is to reconnect.

Our actions define us, not our gender, race or creed. The strength of our sacrifices makes our lives a worthy contribution to the dignity of what it means to be human.

When God created man, he created him flawed. The scarf metaphorizes this imperfection.

A muscular, black man metaphorizes Christ, adding another level of drama to a complex struggle with things that are largely incomprehensible.

People are defined by what they do…and what they do is often well disguised.

We all strive to gain control of our lives, but in the end, it is sometimes easier to play with reality than to be in reality.

In a world where physical beauty is God, this scene parodies and afternoon of pampering, wherein the client is perfected to death.

Power is an illusion, but sometimes these illusions become the engines through which we manage our lives.

Often choosing the myth of security over deeper connection, we find ourselves in the company of a relative stranger whose presence is felt only in the abstract.

While the power of physical beauty is undeniable, the payoff from beauty alone is often emptiness and despair.

In an attempt to keep mortality at arm’s length, we expend every resource. This photograph is about embracing all of life, including its end.

In the Garden, the indestinguishable sexuality of the two figures - coupled with the passionate embrace - binds them to the same destiny.

Some memories are indelible. They flood our lives with love, hatred, confusion. This photograph explores the metaphoric lengths some will go to exorcise them.

The psychological impact of deceit is punctuated by the perpetrator’s indifference. Just another in a series of emotional homicides for which the “killer” never suffers. At the root is narcissism; at the core, pain.