Kurt’s photos emphasize the immediacy and strangeness of contemporary life.

For my photos, I use a smartphone and Adobe Lightroom to activate artistic effects which invoke a quicker process in reaffirming the primacy of image to discover, uncover, or recover whatever verges on authenticity for our time.

In practice, this guiding principle can take a few different paths. It quite often means seeking out subjects that appear banal at first, but which transfigure into something more sublime upon further scrutiny. Such images are a step ahead of either immediate understanding or dismissal, and for which the titles that are formulated provide the link between.

In other photos, I look for strange confluences in weather, geographical place, and architecture as a means to document the raw psychical and spatial fissures which have burst forth since the advent of the pandemic.

A third approach involves looking through various diaphanous veils such as water, curtains, and reflections to unfold a familiar scene into its extra-dimensional possibilities.

In my creative pursuit, I adhere to the idea that a successful artist is always part escape artist: the odds may be long, but if I can give everyone the slip, and carry out an artful plan under the radar, then I should find a way, my way to a space where the air is fresh and buoyant. Look for my postcards from the edge.