Artist Statement

I draw my sculptural vocabulary from the forms found in plants, bones, insects, seed pods, the human figure, musical instruments and machine parts. The resulting sculptures are in part an attempt to imagine a reality in which the relationship between the living organic world and the synthetic machine world is symbiotic rather than destructively antagonistic. I call these creations Biometamorphs. "Bio" meaning life or organism, "Meta" meaning to transform or transcend and "Morph" meaning form or shape. Dialog with the past is also an important aspect of my work and my sculptures often reference specific artworks and or artists which have personal, historical significance. I think of an artwork as something like a fossil, in the sense that an artwork, like a fossil, is a record of the processes involved in its creation. I view the creative process as an alchemical one that takes place both on a conscious and subconscious level. It is a process which distills, condenses and gives shape to the complex interactions between mind, body and spirit, past, present and future. A finished sculpture is a manifestation out of the ether of the internal conceptual realm, into the physical solidity of the external world