The nature of materials has always intrigued me. While I studied art in school, I worked
demolition during the summer to pay for my education. I was fascinated with the way
things reacted under stress. The excavated and torn away semed to captivate the inner
qualities of the materials, exposing their weaknesses and the beauty of their natural,
physical characteristics. Even though the elements were man-made, the force used to
disturb them was the essence of physics and I was the catalyst of that action/reaction.

The experience of technology and reclamation is visible in my sculptures and creates
contrast. The contrast exists between natural and man-made forms. Parts of my work
appear organicaly reclaimed while other images look technically processed. I respond to
the struggle between the powers of nature; nature's endurance and slow reclamation
versus man's ability and inability to control and manipulate this process. The kinetic
works are intended as environmental interpretative tools. My work addresses the
success and failure of man's technological prowess versus Mother Nature's continuances

The techniques that I use vary and depend on that which most accurately articulates my
concerns. I use a combination of forms and materials that suitably depict my ideas and
feelings. I intend my use of mixed-media to convey my thinking through association,
which the viewer brings to the piece.The formal arrangement or composition relates
information about art. The finished and resolved parts interacting with the organic
references invite the viewer to consider man's place and role in nature.The size and scale
relationship of my sculpture is strongly determined by both the idea and the materials
that are available to me at any given time. Most of the materials that I use are recycled
or second hand. I am constantly responding to both my environment as a resource and to
the collective effect of my life's experience.