I work and re-work materials and images looking for a structure that’s visually satisfying, layered, and open to different meanings. These sculptures are intended to encompass and perhaps evoke feelings, sensations, memories. You could say I value a kind of tension between the raw and the cooked. There is an immediacy in the working process that allows for response to the way a work looks and feels;to qualities of gravity, balance, and surface that make sense visually, physically and emotionally. I want the sculptures to includeboth rationality and passion, structure and gesture. And in the end I want to be at least a little bit surprised.”