Artist’s Statement

My work is very much involved in process: the spiritual and physical nature of making. I began sculpting as a way to put my experiences of meditation into some tangible form in order to understand them.

My earliest works were evocative of—but not directly referential to—organic forms. In this way I hoped to show the interconnectedness of all things while suggesting natural cycles.

Currently I am working in a much more reductive manner, utilizing simpler geometric forms, often repeated to create rhythms suggesting meditative states. These works formally owe a debt to postminimalist sculpture of the 1960s and are sympathetic to the work being done by the Metaphysical Abstractionists. Unlike them, my sculpture is less etherial and makes no effort to conceal the presence of the hand. The form of meditation I practice teaches that the “outward stroke” of day-to-day activity is just as critical to the evolution of consciousness as the “inward stroke” of meditation, and I see the process of making art as a devotional practice.