Above are two separate manifestations of my project (plus some studies).

Principally, I am interested in depicting the banality and fraternity in a mechanized infantry unit and so that is what we see at the top. When all is said, done and painted, what I am hoping to acheive is an emphasis ofboth the similarity to and gap between civilian and military culture; the emphasis on communal responsibility within military culture is, in a ideal situation, the best that we aspire to as humans. While there is the unmodifiable fact that the job is to kill people, infantry life concurrently creates an intense loyalty which is partially borne out of a need to emphasize difference between them and us.

Partially created out of the logistics of having taken photos of night attacks without the aid of a flash, Nocturnes are the result. Borrowing directly from James Abbott McNeil Whistler's Nocturnes, they are partially trying to offer some small glimpse into the transcendent aspects of infantry attacks – where all else drops away and it is just you and the power and the violence, and there is nothing better.
Then the noise and fury subsides and you are back in the world, it is cold and, often enough, damp.