”Ever since its inception, the medium of photography has taught its practitioners that the ordinary world around them was filled with a quiet poetry and haunting magic that was unremarked but far from unremarkable. The camera looks at the world with a childlike innocence. As children, we never quite knew what was going on and the world was filled with mystery. The knowledge and experience we have accumulated since then acts as a barrier to our simply looking at things. We no longer look for or see the magic in our "ordinary" surroundings. In my photographs, I try to lose that deadening familiarity and recapture the richness and mystery that we once saw.”

Christopher Rauschenberg, Portland, Oregon, USA, May 2004