I'm the creator, fabricator and metal sculptor, autodidact by training, combining new and found carbon steel producing representational or figurative abstractions. I find the most fulfillment from the creative process rather than a completion; each being an experiment of expression. Beyond a simple chalk figure on my work bench, the finished sculpture is behind my eyes with what remains in my aging brain. Some would say that leads to misguided imperfections, but what I call "corrections." The sculptures are as much a mystery to me as to the viewer, until they appear to be complete. Stealing the words from Jackson Pollock, as I'm producing my sculptures, there's definitely a period where I spend time just getting acquainted with the piece, providing me direction.
I create to instill a degree of spectator confusion and in the words of John Yau, "ambiguity trying to invite the viewer's scrutiny" and participation. Although in recent years I've focused on horse sculptures, I've been inspired by such things as the morning sun reflections on our rural bedroom ceiling or an early morning dream, most that fortunately vaporize. I don’t see myself being trapped by a leitmotiv, however, I am definitely captured by geometry and Cubism as a component of Modernism. On reflection, I seem to draw from different movements so not to limit my efforts to one era or another. I'm taken by the layering three dimensional effect seen in paintings by Braque that best describes what Donald Baechler defined, and I borrow, "editing." For now, each production is a study and as said by the poet and lyricist, Ancel Neuberger, never expecting perfection, as that would eliminate the search, and for me, the end.
I create to instill a degree of spectator confusion and in the words of John Yau, "ambiguity trying to invite the viewer's scrutiny" and participation. Although in recent years I've focused on horse sculptures, I've been inspired by such things as the morning sun reflections on our rural bedroom ceiling or an early morning dream, most that fortunately vaporize. I don’t see myself being trapped by a leitmotiv, however, I am definitely captured by geometry and Cubism as a component of Modernism. On reflection, I seem to draw from different movements so not to limit my efforts to one era or another. I'm taken by the layering three dimensional effect seen in paintings by Braque that best describes what Donald Baechler defined, and I borrow, "editing." For now, each production is a study and as said by the poet and lyricist, Ancel Neuberger, never expecting perfection, as that would eliminate the search, and for me, the end.