Artist Statement

Joy should be intrinsic to life and life should be more than enough.  A gift that is bigger and brighter than we deserve but unfortunately for most of us it is not.   It seems that the average human being is content to live quietly and fade away without making waves loud and vibrant enough to shake the world.  I am looking for the muse Einstein, Shakespeare and Michelangelo found. A piece of art so loud and pure that its reverberations have shaped or influenced every artist that has followed them. 

Art is what defines humanity as human beings and not primates and its birth was the same act that started society.  I am looking for a piece of visual language that is relevant and influential to all of us. A piece of the language that we as a people will remember long after I am dead, long after even the hint of my memory could exist. In short I am looking for a voice, looking for a way to capture everything I love and treasure and shape it into something that will hum and vibrate with meaning and importance in more futures than I can imagine.     

I love subtle curves and bold colors, I love the hints of translucence in a sand cast surface, I love woods with wild grains and I love the smell of steel, I love how a perfect dove tail joint fits together.  I love delicacy of fine craftsmanship.  I love the unseen detail, the hours of excruciating work that may never been known or appreciated.  I love the act of creation and the possibilities every piece of art might have. 

A teacher I had used to say, “90% of a piece is in the last 10%”.  I strive to create work that has even one single perfect detail.  I am fascinated by the subtle moments of perfection one finds in a sculpture, the little details that are absolutely right.  I want to be able to take those tiny moments and learn to transform them into a whole perfect piece and eventually if one can find and enlarge that perfection maybe you can channel it and bring it out into your life and then into the world.  I try to create perfect moments in my life by creating perfect moments in my work.