kaleidoscopes for eyes represents the way I view the world through my camera lens. The framing, camera movement, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, focal length and focus are all guided by my intuition–I pay more attention to the way the camera settings make me feel – how the mirrored machine illuminates the abstractions of my internal world – than to what is technically correct. I primarily use Canon DSLRs, and I presently film with a Rebel T5i and kit lens.

This phrase, kaleidoscopes for eyes, recognizes that we all see the world through different shapes, colors and textures; we perceive the same stimuli in a kaleidoscope of various patterns, shaped by our internal selves – the unseen, the abstract – and our external reality – the known, the material world.

In my realm of exploration, my visual and semantic wonderings ponder self doubt, personal empowerment, death, beauty, nature, but extensively, the relationship between oneself (what lies within) and the universe (what lies without). My favorite modes of communication are the personal diary, the essay film, poetry, counter cinema and the Tumblr blog.

kaleidoscopes for eyes is meant to extend past the boundaries of myself, what is known and understandable to me, and into a space – tangible and intangible – where I can feel and share the feelings and visions of others – a shapeshifting constellation of all that echoes and diverges across the human experience – through film: the visual and semantic, a digital manipulation that transforms what we can control about time and space into a new kind of internal resonance–a true medium of magic.

In memoriam, kaleidoscopes for eyes deeply sees that we are all looking through the same glass mirrors, twisting reflections of the same colors, shapes and textures; fractals of human life: pain, love and awe.