MEDIA
Even though I have a strong background in foundry work I have during my passage as a studio artist produced work in painting, photography, film, ceramics, and sculpture from which I usually have a few series of works going at any given time. I must say however that I am nurtured best by sculpture for it provides the broadest boundaries in terms of viable process, and I am constantly seeking to expand the techniques that I use in my work.
CONTENT
My work has consistently dealt with transformational journeys, both physical and spiritual, suggested by mythic figures, objects relic to those journeys, and objects empowered themselves to make those journeys. With a love for pure function and the patina that comes from prolonged use, my works hint at a vague mythology of a future past. I enjoy imbuing the work with a heroic pop-cultural appeal, and derive influence from many sources: insect morphology, ancient and tribal art, hydrodynamic and aerodynamic forms, mechanical engineering, the history of space exploration, fractal geometry, robotics, SETI, comic books, popular science fiction, toys, and the vast plethora of apocalyptic scenarios, both imagined and “legitimately” prophesized. I recognize that our survival is obviously threatened by a rampant exponential growth of technology, but there is a chance, a hope, that we might find salvation by the deeds of or at least be survived by autonomous machine/organisms who should be canonized for their revolutionary and metamorphic discoveries.
