Artist Statement
Joel has a Ph.D in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taught as a university professor and worked as an archaeologist. In 2010 he completed a photography degree in Lansing, Michigan. His photographic art blends his professional knowledge of landscapes and landforms with a love for the purity of texture, color, form, and pattern he sees in abstractions. Joel delights in seeing the unique in the mundane.