Artist statement.

Faced with the blunt trauma of reality, I use forms of magical thinking to manipulate and re-write the outcomes

of less-than-ideal situations into something free and joyful. As I work, art seems closely aligned to alchemy;

a tool to record reality, change it, and also an ideal means with which to escape it's confines.

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As time passes, it seems more plausible to me that all work can only be, ultimately, highly personal; no

longer disappointed by this seeming inability to achieve total objectivity, I instead feel awed by our pathetic and

ridiculous human-ness, the black joke that is life and death, the pathos of our earnest optimism and guileless

stupidity to face life each day with only the flimsiest of armour.

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Against this backdrop, I feel more sympathy for the creator than the created. And so the things I've been

making reflect upon one or all of several scenarios; the things we put in place to provide a home for our sense of

self (be they physical props, people or beliefs); the ensuing anxiety and desolation at the loss of these things, and

the iron will and desperate optimism universally employed to overcome these losses.

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I like using forms of intuitive measurement; distances and spaces that resonate on some level, ratios that feel

almost familiar but not quite. Measurement becomes trust when used in this way; another form of alchemy. The passing

of time and energy expended while making each piece are invisible and indispensible measurements and anchors.

I use a variety of materials; most things seem to have the potential to say a lot when removed from their usual

environment.

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My hope is for all pieces to operate as individual parts of a cohesive whole, a giant chess set wherein every

grouping or pairing makes sense on some level, or feels as if it does, however disparate the works initially appear.

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