Shambhala is a series I have been working on in both digital and now on slide film since 2008. All photographs are double exposures within the camera. Double exposures imply passage in time between framing of the two images that overlap to form the one image. This series marked the beginning where I started titling my photographs after translated metro station names. This series documents the events of lives waiting for their Shambhala; Shambhala in Tibetan Sanskrit means "place of peace, of happiness" and it served as the basis for the fictional place of Shangri-La. The metaphor for these photographs is that they can be seen as "stations" in life before moving on to the next destination, the anxiety of waiting before reaching a possible Shambhala.

I photographed these during a commission for ArtsMemphis' Bravo Memphis' coaster project. They choose fellow artists Shea Colburn, Roy Tamboli, Vitus Shell and I to submit images for four different coasters to be distributed across Memphis. We will be displaying the original works during the Bravo 2009-2010 kickoff party taking place on Huling Street August 27, 2009.

"Yellow Sand"

"Hanger Lane"

"Honey Lake"

Tommy "Can't seem to find his throne" Kha