Artist's Statement
Art is for everyone, and can be experienced not only by
observing, but also, and most powerfully, by creating. We
all have something to say, and have so many different means
at our disposal: speaking, writing, acting, singing, playing
an instrument, drawing, painting, and sculpting are just a
few. Sculpting is where I found my means of expressing that
which I cannot "say" in any other way. In college and
graduate school I found myself captivated by sculpture but
with no way to experience it, save observing it. After my
formal education, I spent the first nine years of my career
"sculpting" young minds and bodies, by teaching and
coaching. Now I find my voice in chiseling stone, modeling
clay, casting bronze, and welding/shaping steel. Sculpting
appeals to different aspects of my personality: the
destructive and the constructive. Subtractive sculpting such
as carving allows me to find the entrapped form within the
block, creating or "freeing" while I selectively pulverize
portions of stone. Modeling in clay, wax, or cement allows
me to call forth a form from the void without constraints
imposed by a block of starting material. Steel provides me
with an avenue to the infinite: I can fabricate any shape I
desire,
moving any direction in space to make my statement.
