Simple forms of life and energy and their relationship to the space around them fascinate me. Certain forms are so efficient in their environment that life has evolved into them at many scales. The smallest splatter of water may contain dynamic life forms that bear a remarkable resemblance in form to huge ocean dwelling creatures. For instance a microscopic form of a sperm is very similar to a giant whale. Also consider a tiny speeding electron or a huge comet or most any matter hurling through space and how it takes the same form. These fundamental forms are found through out nature because they work so well. With my art, I am exploring simple, fundamental, effective and universal relationships of life and energy to form. I am also interested in representing the interconnected relationships of energy to space and of organism to environment.
I am especially interested in sprouting, budding and flowering as examples of birth or growth, also in colonies made up of masses of similar individual organisms acting as one entity. There is an inherent energy, and a harmonic, interconnected relationship to environment implied in such forms even when selected out of their normal context, generalized and frozen in a sculpture. Symmetry, the emanation from, or congregation toward a central point of component parts, and the fractal concept of the form of parts being self-similar to the form of the whole, are overriding formal qualities I have focused on. It is not my aim directly to represent or mimic existing forms of life or energy. Instead I abstract the basic form which generally represents the efficiency, energy and simplicity of life. With a form in mind, I select a medium and materials and fashion an art object consistent with my sensibilities about the medium. I aim to create objects that capture the essence of energy innate to such forms of life and energy and their balance with the environment, while creatively addressing issues of the medium.