The sculptures I create take advantage of recognizable imagery as well as materials, and the connotations that they inherently hold. The materials I select for making lead a double life, one of which indicates where they came from, and the other is their transformation into my world. Though my Undergraduate and Graduate instruction focused on glass working, I do not limit myself to one particular discipline or medium simply because there are far too many materials and processes that I am interested in. Nor do I limit only my own hands to be seen in my work. Instead, I often seek the collaboration of others in order to realize various sculptures. The work looks at the push and pull of different ideas and issues such as protection offered too late, concealment when information should be revealed; present time verses time past, and mortality.
Some of my art works as a visual commentary on social dispositions and the human situation. I believe we need to see, hear, and touch real things in order to validate their presence and make sense of our own reality. I make in order to gain a little control over my small part of the world. It is my hope that the viewer will be drawn into the work through these shared experiences and can gain some comfort in the knowledge that we are all the same; saying the same stuff, just in a different way.