Ryan Dornfeld

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Installation shot, Insideout by Dornfeld

4 20 Insatation shot by Dornfeld

Minimal by Dornfeld

Art is a journey.  We as individuals may participate and interact in the quest, experiencing and changing the future of creative thinking.  These ideas stem from the personal relationships we build with our surroundings.  First, family is of an utmost importance, and in a way all of mankind is a family.  In this greater family, the Earth is our house, and art is the name for the creative energy with which we interact.

              My photographs explore the idea of how our lives are lived based on the decisions we make.  In The Birth, Life and Death of a Man in the 20th Century, I interview the exterior of everyday rural homes and the skins that this society uses to reveal, embellish or hide their beliefs.  It is a story about the relationship of humankind's broad impact on the more broadly existing natural world, and the balance that exists between the two.  There is a belief that a butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the world can cause a tsunami on the other.  This is in the line of thinking that everything in existence is a thread of the same cloth.  Relationships in this way are blindly obvious; they are existent but subtle enough to go unnoticed.

              Life is what you make of it.  To me, it is an adventure, a journey where we learn about ourselves and experience incredible feelings and sensations.  I insist on promoting our inherent creativity.  Everyone accesses the world in a different way, and I am just fortunate enough to be able to interact with the many intriguing environments surrounding us.