Artist Statement

When I make sculpture, I am concerned primarily with form—not an image that the mind can grasp, but a volume that takes up space. Representation has been defining beauty for centuries, but we live in an abstract world. I no longer distinguish between representation and abstraction. The searching for essential form, and the paring down that my work entails allow space for one’s own interpretation. Through extensive drawings, the abstract forms I arrive at, again and again, are reminiscent of something, but not really that thing. If each viewer sees something different in a particular work, then I feel that I have been successful.
 
Many of my forms are biomorphic and some recall the human body. I work with symmetry, or forms that are approaching symmetry, because there is an inevitability and a presence that only symmetry provides. It is important to me that the sculpture stand solidly on the ground, rising up by its own effort, occupying its ordained position in space.
 
I want to refine an artistic idea to its most succinct and inevitable essence—its unique shape at rest. I have spent many years exploring this essence, which, to me, is beauty. The abstraction of the forms is inspired by ancient sculpture that exudes solidity, timelessness, and mystery. I strive to make work that has these qualities. I want the pieces to be like a beautiful melody that one returns to again and again.