About the Work
The sculptures are from my observations -- observations of objects, animate or inanimate, their relation to space, time, and other objects: physical or conceptual. This becomes a system of interesting shapes that can be expressed in sculpture or drawings.
I carve shapes of animals because they are alive and natural. By exaggerating anatomical features, my work invites viewers to interpolate or create their own version. When my sculptures are on display, viewers say they get a feeling the sculptures are life-like and often ask to touch them.
Properties of stone are especially intriguing. Stone is eternal; it’s been here a long time and will endure into the future. I like to shape the stone into objects representing life or integrating space and time.
It’s fun to take an idea or concept and express it in stone; i.e.: the force of wind – in a tornado, or ocean waves. The strata and coloring of stone offers history of collected minerals over millennia that can be brought into present day surroundings adding to future interest. Past-present-future, bringing movement to the permanence of the stone.