My work is a journey.

At one time I carved English stone and carved my ideas directly. I removed all that did not resonate with my ideas. I began to explore the possibilities of creating work in marble. In my first encounter I was totally inspired by the unexpected fluidity of the material. In carving marble I discovered I could balance strength and fragility. New work evolved and my artistic vocabulary grew. I was able to incorporate ideas that better represented my experience. The work that evolved holds itself precariously in tension on small points of balance, poised in a fleeting moment of time. It simultaneously contains and exudes energy. This work evokes questions of time, movement and place.

Recent work in marble is informed by the intuitive and immediate sketches I create in clay. Through this work I attempt to translate and reflect my interpretation of my personal internal language. I cut through and peel back surface layers to liberate space, giving life and freedom to the form. I deliberately push towards the edge of the material's physical limits, exposing visceral thresholds of an unknown yet familiar place in a process of continual reinvention.

Currently I am uncovering the dynamics of form revealed when I prioritize my instinct. I am exploring the spaces between extremes, from marble's absolute and final translation emerging from timely reductive processes, to the possibilities inherent in the raw energy and plasticity of form in clay. Clay is slowly emerging as a medium in itself. Working within these spaces, the materials and attendant processes are taking their own journeys that I facilitate.

I am inspired to push my ideas, materials and processes to their limits. The more I push, the more exciting the unknown becomes. I look to a future of casting and fabrication alongside carving and modeling. Casting will capture and evidence instinctive experience through making. Fabrication will be my means to build my experience into the body of my sculpture. Muscular memories. I plan a future making large works that people will move through, around and exist within, experiencing for themselves their own personal journey.

My work remains a journey motivated by views of truth relative to my experience.