Artist Statement

Art reminds us that we are human, existing among others. Art serves as a phenomenon that heightens awareness. It educates us in what it is to be human, compassionate, inquisitive, and awake. Public artwork generates a site for participation in public culture and dialogue, this is place making, and place marking. Site-specific sculpture offers a sense of passage, physicality, and orientation, framing perception through the lens of community, culture, place, topography, and time. Using juxtapositions of space & material, shadow & reflection, structure & the ephemeral, I initiate a dialogue of fabricated form with the natural environment, challenging our changing perception of that environment. My work is an investigation of our use, misuse, and interpretation of land.