Whether entering the river’s flow from the humanizing traditions of Classical figurative stone, Chinese ritual objects, or habitations from another culture, I follow the imperative to make it new. In order to work directly and to challenge myself, I have cut one step from the process of production, casting into the pure, tactile air of the single-use mold.

For me the resultant sculpture should possess both a reassuring familiarity and potential for surprise. Strategically inserted shells, metal, rope, or wood in the mold walls are transitional objects that conjure the spirit.

The immediacy of the moment of casting becomes the medium through which long experience, intuition, and intensity of expression unite.  —

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