Artist Statement
The experience of creating a new object and the endorphins that come along with that experience are what drive my passion for making art. I see art as a form of tool-making (tribal?). The art process is an assistant of my inner examination of outer situations (a response mechanism) and my need to make something that relates me to the outside world by the use of storytelling. My surroundings have always strongly influenced my work. The attitude and mood of my art is dependent upon the attitude of “where I am” at the moment. The need to create is part of the brain.
My skill as a welder and days of building engines and hotrods is one of the reasons I began to consider making sculptures. As I was welding things together I became aware of how it looked fairly artistic. I took that process and put it into my sculptures. The work starts as a way of incorporating my knowledge of assemblage into dimensional stories. Ideas for sculpture projects are generated by the look and/or visual clues given off by the patina of the materials being used. That is to say, reconstructed steel, wood, disregarded material etc., is reborn into sculptural narratives using hints of nature to involve the viewer.
My skill as a welder and days of building engines and hotrods is one of the reasons I began to consider making sculptures. As I was welding things together I became aware of how it looked fairly artistic. I took that process and put it into my sculptures. The work starts as a way of incorporating my knowledge of assemblage into dimensional stories. Ideas for sculpture projects are generated by the look and/or visual clues given off by the patina of the materials being used. That is to say, reconstructed steel, wood, disregarded material etc., is reborn into sculptural narratives using hints of nature to involve the viewer.
