Artist Statements: 2009As an artist I create objects from a place of interior knowing, letting go of the labels of beauty and rationality as well as commonly held beliefs of externally imposed concepts. I strive to let the creative process flow through me, trusting an inherent primal intelligence to direct the actions of making sculpture. The desired result is to create work that touches the viewer in that same realm, the place beneath preconceived ideas of what art is, what beauty is, and what logical meaning is. Currently in an investigation of what I am calling the “edge”, I see this as the point of contact of all things and the nothing. I am focusing on the place where man and nature meet. From the natural world and the world of architecture to the sole of our foot placed on the earth, my interest is in that point of contact; this is the core of my artistic exploration. To work with tools as extensions of my hands, with the skill to hone the chisel to an edge so fine that the interface of steel and nothing become the point of non-separation, this is where the material and creation relate in the harmony of minimal effort. To bring an element of the natural world into the human enviroment is a ritual. Symbolic of the entire natural world a simple branch contains the energy of the entire forest and with it the vibration to touch and heal our deepest primitive nature. Before we as humans will be able to heal our natural world we must first accept the healing gift of nature back within our souls. I work to create this connection to nature in a visual, tactile and symbolic way. Beauty of form color, texture and scale is my way to represent my deep passion for our natural world and our place in it. I work in a wide variety of mediums from wood, steel, concrete, bronze, paper as well as found objects, with over thirty years of building experience I can now work from an intuitive place knowing I can manifest whatever the vision inspires. |