ABOUT THE WORK

I bend metal rod into geometric shapes--triangles, circles, curved rectangles--then fill negative spaces with plaster to explore the mysterious interplay of natural forces, how primal elements cohere into patterns and forms.
Underived from drawings or photographs, these objects arise from my engagement with the physical world and desire to uncover the authentic object.

Observing what's at hand--concrete rain gutters, steel girders supporting a freeway, a dental molar extracted during childhood, the flow of a creek broken by rocks--I'm not interested in a story or explanation, but how these phenomena create a moment of visual quietness.

Agnes Martin said her paintings are not about what's seen but what's known forever in the mind. Similarly, I study surfaces to divine what's underneath, to understand what gives objects their presence, to discover what invites us inside--to look and re-look at the object and find its simple gesture.

Both rough-hewn and diaphanous, recognizable yet unknown, these works become more aware, more expressive of themselves. They may even seem to breathe.