Artist Statement

Intention

After a career in business, I decided to devote myself to the artistic process. My prior life has influenced my engagement with the particular sculptural materials I work with today. The processes I once took part in, circuit cards design, involved industrial-manufacturing techniques of infusing, aligning, and incorporating different materials together. In my work today I use these same processes while also surrendering to the autonomous gesture of the hand.

In each unit, I use three layers of material mounted together. The bottom two layers are made of acrylics while the top layer is fused glass. Both materials have a bright, sleek and polished surface quality. This discipline of syncing and joining materials together is essentially a process of sculptural collage. The work explores the dynamics of rhythm and the tensions between individual colors and the color continuum.

As a material, glass has always held a particular balance between a structured repetition of the industrial mold, and in breaking instance of the hand, guided by human perception. Each segment of glass I shape and draw is a line, both in form and as instance in time.

Often I have been asked if the individual fused glass pieces could be moved and rearranged on their line. After overcoming the initial defensive response, I realize that the question reveals precisely my intention, to create a distinctive sense of rhythm and movement. The line plays a significant and reoccurring role in the work, an imagined view of the landscape mapped a moment in time, ever moving and changing.