I am drawn to sculpture because it is emphatically present as a physical object, not depicting or referring to the world but asserting its presence as part of it. As a thing rather than an image, sculpture can encourage a sense of physical relationship with the object, one in which one’s own body is an essential element.

The objects I am making are abstract but familiar, purposeful yet ambiguous.  They are evocative of both useful objects, tools, vessels, and at the same time, products of nature, the cast off evidence of growth and transformation, shells, husks or the remains themselves of formerly living things.

Through their form, scale and surfaces they have a material and bodily presence that might remind us of what it is to inhabit a body, one that endures the passage of time and bears evidence of that passage, brokenness and renewal, stillness and motion, raw and refined.  My hope is that through an experience of shared presence with such an object one might begin to sense a common ground, even a sense of empathy and a feeling that those qualities are an inescapable, integral part of being alive, of having a body and the knowledge that it will perish.