Work:
"In this body of work, tableaux of common objects, such as a white feather, an apple, or cherries, were created and photographed with the wonderment sometimes reminiscent of a nineteenth century view. Like floatsam and jetsam, it remains a mystery whether these objects have just surfaces, or if they are about to sink into a world of darkness."
"The circular format has several references, including a porthole into the psyche and an observation of life as a continuum of loss and rebirth. This work was born of concept, yet is fueled by emotion, and ends up particularly conscious of beauty and form. By removing the objects from their context and crating a representation via the photographic medium, a metaphor emerges. Specific images relate to the innate forces of nature, oppression and death, but they're more complex than that. They are metaphors with a kaleidoscopic field of reference. These images, as symbols, are like psychological clues, like ink blot tests or flash cards, stirring personal interpretations from the viewer's catalogue of references." J John Priola (Prospect-Photography in Contemporary Art, Edition Stemmle)
For Priola photography creates a sense of loss, death and decay. It relies on the viewers interpretation through past experiences on an object they remember from their own past, therefore photography is always presenting history, a time that has passed, a death of moment.