What most interests me as an artist is the creation of forms for particular places, and of how form animates and invigorates an overall space. My general approach is to thoroughly study all aspects of a site in order to best combine form and space. This combination creates an entity larger than the artwork itself with elements of flow and linkage to an overall design.
My working philosophy is that sculpture occupies physical space, and relates directly to our bodies and the environment. It can depict, but more importantly, it must engage. This point of engagement is both physical and conceptual. My goal is the creation of engaging places.
Community is predicated upon complex and interactive relationships of person to person, and of person to place. Sculpture creates points of interest. It counters ambivalency toward place, as it is, in it’s essence, a physical and expressive meditation in form to person and place.
Expression and meaning proceed from an investigation and intersection of particular forms in a particular space and time. A well made artwork is variously a personal, social, environmental, and temporal construct. The conscious mutability of matter, place and meaning is sculptural reality.
The crafts and processes which are necessary for the creation of sculpture, are also part of all that it stands for; again, sculpture is a physical and conceptual construct. My artwork has often been sited in public, is constructed of various materials, and has demonstrated considerations of durability and soundness.