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Time is precious and you can spend that time being
as happy or as miserable as you want to be. I love working with stone simply
because it makes me happy to uncover the shape and beauty hiding inside. |
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I enjoy finding a way to use stone that conveys a
story, an image, or a life experience.
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Why do I do
this?
Exploring a stone and envisioning its possibilities is a labor of
love. Time is suspended
while I’m balancing shape and color and trying to discover shapes that have
been hidden inside the stone for millennia waiting for me to unlock
them. Stone is a difficult and unforgiving media. If I fight it and try to force it to my will, ultimately I end up frustrated. Once I relax and work with the structure nature set in place, the work flows and the piece finally takes shape. I suspect this makes me less a sculptor and more a discoverer. |
On occasion I’m
compelled to use complementary stones to achieve a color balance to enhance
the vision I have for the piece |
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The family portrait. A representative sculpture of my two sisters and me. Each piece is unique and can stand by itself, but together they form a strong coherent family picture |
What’s the
next step?
I feel it’s time to take my work in a new direction. The challenge of working with
another artist (my wife) to create complementary representations of a single
theme is both exciting and daunting. We are working together to choose a theme, then each
representing it in our own media.
Her creation in fiber, mine in stone. These joint projects create a dynamic that are
endlessly entertaining to us and to our clients as we take two radically
different media and turn them into a single common vision. It therefore takes little
imagination to understand why we both feel trapped between a “Rock and a
Soft Place”. |
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I’ve been working with stone for over 20
years. What started
as a hobby has bloomed into a vocation.
But this is just a short stopover until it’s a full-blown compulsion. |