BIRTHDANCE began by accident. Sitting in a car on a rainy night, waiting for a friend, I began to photograph the city traffic outside the car window. After about 15 minutes, I grew tired of that and started focusing not on the traffic outside, but on the patterns of the raindrops on the windshield that were distorted and refracted by the city and traffic lights.

When I looked at the images later, I was struck by two things: that the images looked an awful lot like astronomical photos of distant galaxies and stars, and that they also reminded me of the microscopic photos I've seen of implantation, fertilization and embryonic development deep inside a woman's uterus.

I felt a deep connection to what I saw -- the photos spoke to the primal connection between the cosmic dance of the planets and stars and the intimate dance in a woman's body. In effect, the images were graphic representations of the link between the womb and the cosmos.

It's my hope that BIRTHDANCE serves as a tribute to the great lifeforce that connects everyone and everything in our world -- and a small reminder that beauty, spirituality and insight can come from places most of us wouldn't stop to look twice at.

NOTE: The photographs in "BirthDance" are not composites or "Photoshopped" images. The reflections and "effects" are all available light, real-life images.

View the BIRTHDANCE exhibition.