Emblem, 2003
Varnished steel and stainless steel

Compared to what?, 1999
Varnished steel, stainless steel, copper, & bronze

I have worked for years from an early insight concerning the tension between the organic flowing forms expressive of growth, life, expansion, against the geometric, analytic forms of the mind, and the unity arising from their interplay.

I use the debris of nature and industry as points of departure to achieve new markers of life awareness. The off-cut of a computer-guided cutting-torch evokes granite mountains, the radiant sky, the flower's gesture. And the grain in paper, the weave of linen, spread a net to hold the traces of vision. The practice of art, like birdsong, is ceaseless spending and renewal; the objects of art, its visible emblems.