Art has inhabited me continuously, and the making of objects has defined my life. I graduated from East High School in Denver CO., a wildly diverse congregation of music, culture and serious study. That was the extent of my formal education, choosing instead to nurture curiosity and expand my knowledge by traveling, hungry for every encounter possible. I’ve supported myself as an artist my entire life, with working diversions as a cowboy and stone mason. In addition to my purely sculptural work,  architecture has been of parallel interest. I’ve built 3 significant art homes in addition to other unique structures in cast concrete, welded steel and glass.

Eluding the grasp of gravity through balance defines the starting point for my work. My imagery draws inspiration from the movement of birds, Mayan Stelae, curling waves and smoke. My pieces are frequently transparent metal grids, casting undulating shadows which shift and dance. I’ve always had a compulsion to make things and I enjoy the process of creation and problem solving as much as I do the finished work.

My figurative work represents people transformed through circumstance, altering and shifting their perspective and the viewers perception. In the case of “the Elemental Human” I wanted to create a being which transcends the strictly human, someone of a possibly interstellar origin and certainly a polyethnic one. The sculpture resonates and echoes the songs of the stars.