You know, and now I know, that your Book of Palms is an exquisite personal summation of an idea. This is in every sense and "artist's book." You have always been the master of your tools and here, again, you have taken a democratic medium and made it your own. Photographers have always insisted that any means of reproducing their work should honor the integrity of the photographic quality of the tools of their visions.

You have done no less with this book. The idea is to represent the "look" of the medium without pretending to be the medium. The primal work is the work. But a book, when it is truthful, does not merely represent the work. It is another version of the work, in its own way, without obscuring the original idea and its very personal photographic uniqueness.

I love the book and love the idea that you remain relentlessly dedicated to its perfection.

~ Jim Enyeart

Your 'Book of Palms' was a treat to look through several times. It is obvious that you stayed with and communed with your subject until it gave itself over to you totally. They are things of beauty and the later ones are not only 'visceral' but hauntingly mysterious.

~ Paul Caponigro

I just now sat down in front of your beautiful book and print: the cover, the paper, the typeface and the images, all are wonderfully presented. You have successfully transferred your life's work into book form in order to share it with the world. It is like a poem reflecting your artistic sensibilities and your ‘search for the gnosis’. It is a movingly handsome body of work that you must be so proud of. Congratulations!

~ Lisa Kitchen, Photographer and Author of Suburban Knights