ARTIST STATEMENT

The most fundamental is the desire to create, to work with my hands, and ultimately see the idea through to its completion. There is great level of perseverance while engaged in the repetitive process of making my sculptures. Through folding and weaving, small units coalesce into new forms. During construction, when something goes astray, it takes discipline and will power to dismantle a day's work and begin from scratch.

It is the idea of process that interests me, responding to a material's strong and weak qualities and ultimately discovering how these qualities can inform the reading of a piece. Teaching myself a new technique with traditional or unconventional material requires patience and concentration.  All materials have inherent characteristics that can be manipulated or emphasized. At the start of each of my projects the concept is unformed. Only when I understand the materials and develop a rhythm of working does my focus shift to find the deeper connections in a specific piece or body of work.