About the Artist

Sculpting with metal gives me a powerful feeling of liberation, and timeless permanence.  My passion for building sculptures from re-purposed metal comes from a deep personal desire to transform the past, and leave my signature on the future.  Building sculptures using the unique shapes of metal objects from salvage yards is a mutual corroboration. I do not pre-design my work because I never know what object will "fit" into my creation at any given moment.  Everything is made-up of vibrating atoms. As I weld these salvaged parts together, I feel the new vibrations of the transformation.  It's an experience of re-birth, and freedom. The once noble devise or tool has escaped, and released into the wild world of art.  All the elements of my artwork, have been here all along, only hiding in another form, some other metallic disguise.  The only "found object” in this process is me, the sculptor.  My artistic reward is the satisfaction of being the liberator of ageless vibrating atoms, into a new body… a new disguise.

Artist's Statement

"Like a wildflower, freedom and justice is very fragile.  The Slender Flattop Goldenrod seeks water, nourishment and the light, as do all people under oppression, hunger and pain.  I made this sculpture in honor of the many people that gave their lives during the "Jasmine Revolution," of 2012 so that others could to grow and blossom without fear.  May we all remember them as wild flowers, bright and strong, and full of the joys of life."