Using long exposures ranging from 20 seconds up to 60 minutes, I have tried to filter out what I call the "visual noise" of everyday life in order to reveal the fundamental, underlying forms of our world — it is these forms that I think we respond to on a visceral level. My long time exposures average out all the short-term, temporal events — the visual noise — within a scene. I believe that our impressions of what we see are built up over time — a composite of many short-term events. For example, if you meet someone for the first time, your impression of that person is not a snapshot in your mind of the first time you saw that person, but rather a portrait you have assembled from many separate moments. Every time that person exhibits a new facial expression or hand gesture, you add that to your impression of who that person is. Your image of that person — how you feel about that person — is formed over time, rather than upon a single expression or gesture. Likewise, I believe that our impression of the world is based upon our total experience. For example, the ocea