Art is my gift, my purpose, and my responsibility. I am inspired by the world around me, things that are full of life and motion. I like to focus on that which is not associated with cold hard steel. I have a strong desire to create artistic works that transcend media, turning cold into warm, hard into soft, and rigid into flowing. I use modern metal working techniques including plasma cutting, wire feed welding, and multi-layered grinding as well as more traditional methods involving heat, hammer, and anvil. The recycling of the earth's resources is not only important but a necessity. My challenge as an artist is to give scrap metal new life. I seek to expose its potential by bringing out beauty related to the elements and the forces of nature. Taking non-organic materials like steel and copper and transforming them into organic reflections of our environment. This process gives me the greatest sense of accomplishment.
