Artist’s Statement

While architecture has been my main focus over the years, art has always been at my elbow. After all, architecture is design with practical restraints, and sculpture is design with virtually no restraints, but in the end, both are art, so I can claim to have been a lifelong artist, with both buildings and objects as my products.

I find welded steel to be the most dramatic and flexible of mediums. It’s strength, plasticity, permanence, and scalelessness, lets steel sculptors transform into the third dimension anything their minds may conjure. Working with torches and high pressure flammable gasses and high- voltage electricity and molten metal at 2000o +, provides continuous stimulating drama, to say the least. As much as I enjoy architecture, there is nothing more fulfilling than being able to hold in one’s hands an idea, emotion, design notion, or just a practical object, translated into the language of steel - particularly after it has cooled off. I hope observers of my pieces glean the same fascination I get by pursuing themes such as “against all odds”, “encounter”, “frozen motion”, and “clocks of life”.