I was a small boy making drawings and molding clay; having my grandparents who I adored and a father who was a large figure in my life. I became a man with a daughter whom I adore and grandparents who are gone but who remain large figures in my life. I've made paintings and glass and drawings and sculptures over the years that were a result of my feelings about whatever was going on in my life or the world around me.Now I make the work as I love my daughter and watch her grow older; as I feel the good shadow my grandparents have cast over my life; as I think of other ancestors that I've known and the mystery of those who were gone before I was born; and I recognize through the compulsion to do this particular writing the role of the feelings from my evolving relationship with my father.