About

My work is most often structured on the human form and the human condition. We relate to each other through our interactions whether experiential or verbal. I will notice an event of human behavior that stands out for me and search for a visual structure that represents it. Once found, I attempt to imagine a more universal image that others can relate to and then form that idea/image into a physical structure. In any case my work is always narrative. For me telling stories is the most direct way that people express their feelings, experiences and ideas. Political, cataclysmic, and awe-inspiring events charge my efforts, but the work rarely reflects those events directly. Humor is a big part of my thinking. After all, without humor current events can, from time to time, form a depressing shroud around thinking and creative effort. And my personal reaction to those events can overshadow the more ubiquitous result that humanity may express unless I look more closely and openly. I find that even the most unique occurrence can relate to other ideas and experiences in our daily lives and I attempt to represent any subject on a more universal plane so that an observer may see/think/feel similar expressions that I felt when producing the work.  The appearance and stance of a solo figure can represent the joys and difficulties of life and this more than any pointed statement can bring the observer to a deeper understanding of self.