Statement

My work presents unanswered questions that invite viewers beyond their personal experiences and assumptions. My goal is to create a sense of awe — a larger and more mysterious awareness that transcends our current understanding of the world. That sense of wonder gets us outside of ourselves, connecting us to community, to nature, to ideas, and to something genuinely universal.

I want to transform individual experience into universal experience. My sculptures symbolize archetypal qualities of characters and situations. They might at first appear whimsical. But the unanswered questions they pose create a pathway to an archetypal experience — one that reaches past the labels and differences that define and divide us. Regardless of how we see ourselves or each other, we are part of a single connected community.

My characters are both contemporary and timeless archetypal metaphors. Their gestures tell stories by amplifying human qualities, emotions, and circumstances.

My style was initially inspired by petroglyphs. Indigenous cultures worldwide have etched figures into rock for millennia — not as graffiti, but to invoke the essence or guidance of a specific archetype. My exploration of each archetype might require 50 preliminary sketches. I redraw until the nuances of the hands, the attitude of the head, and the overall gesture accurately convey the essense.

Their stories are our stories.