I try and push myself. I work as hard as I can every day. The medium, the subject matter and the materials demand it. I work directly with time, memory, and ghosts. What I am doing is translating voices that are not being heard. Building homes for vanished things needing a place to settle. Creating safe areas designed to respect what may seem like such common items, yet items which hold an alarming resonance – a haunting if you will.?I grew up in such a nomadic way, yet always returned to Charlotteville, a small village in Schoharie County in Upstate New York, between the Catskills and Adirondack Mountains. It was an abandoned place but rescued from oblivion and loved and maintained by a small resident population. Later the allure of New Orleans pulled me into her web and there I stayed for nearly two decades, honing my craft in an antebellum atmosphere. Hurricane Katrina changed that. Katrina brought me to Los Angeles and challenged me to rebuild myself, and my artwork. The voice became louder but slower. The style of my work went from bold, strong and rugged, to far more elegant, refined, and with painstaking complexity. Going from having all the materials I needed to having none taught me a whole new craftsmanship that set my work apart – even from my own past accomplishments.

I strive not towards perfection but for complexity and challenge. I want to challenge not just myself but the viewer. Having little formal academic education and zero formal art school, I chase geometry and math. I want the sculptures I build to echo architecture…cathedrals and monuments. The pursuit is for craftsmanship as well as fine visual art. The idea is to combine many aspects, not as “multi-media” but as multifaceted skill sets. My goal is to create sculpture that uses architecture, geometry and craftsmanship in balance with fine art.