Artist Statement
My art illustrates stories. My medium is industrial scrap, old toys such as Erector Sets, found objects, and jewelry findings. To these materials, which I assemble using nuts, bolts and screws in three-dimensional constructions, I add two-dimensional iconography, usually human figures cut from the pages of art history.
All of my stories, which are generally about the human spirit, are set in a mechanized universe. As our society hurls itself into the bewildering uncertainties of the Information Age, my art expresses nostalgia for the fading comprehensibility of the Industrial Age. I express that nostalgia with the age, patina and iconography of many of the materials I choose for inclusion. That many of the seemingly rational mechanics in my art are in fact on closer inspection mechanically irrational is my ironic comment on nostalgia for an era that was never more than superficially comprehensible.
My long prior career as an architect has influenced my art. As in my design work for buildings I strive for elegance, beauty and virtuosity in the practice of my craft. I am keen to discover inventiveness and expression in the structural engineering necessary for attaching and holding natural and man-made materials together in space.
