The sculpture I create is my attempt to give form to the concept of unity. As a child I lived all around the world, due to my father being a groundwater geologist with the United Nations, among others. Living in different countries meant direct experience of stone constructions like Baalbek, Petra, the Colosseum, Machu Pichu, Stonehenge. I recall thinking about the people who carved these installations and wanting to make things that would, like them, speak with people down through time.
I did indeed become a sculptor, and these experiences led me to study stone and bronze sculpture in Italy via the Lusk Memorial Fellowship with the Institute of International Education. This experience broadened my knowledge of creating sculpture which in turn enabled me to focus on creating large-scale public sculptures around the world that create powerful, unique environments by their presence.
These multi-cultural experiences led me to understand very early in my life the unity of all peoples around the world. This led me to study art history, anthropology, philosophy, religion and natural principles, including the art aesthetics of China and Japan. I experienced the sublime grandeur of nature in the Saudi and Jordanian deserts, in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru and in the Altiplano in Bolivia.
I learned Yang style Tai Chi Chuan while attending the California Institute of the Arts. Initially my sculpture was what I call “linear” in character, and it then evolved to being “centred” in one way or another: to be more “wholistic” in concept and form, with balance and symmetry being an important aspect, like in the EIDOLON series. Also, Tai Chi inspired me to include in my sculpture aspects of flow and movement like the vortex, seen in the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE and DOUBLE HELIX. Studies of nature led to working with natural proportions like the Fibonacci numerical series, as used in TS’UNG MUSIC, and natural structure like the tetrahedron, seen in SHIVA:SHIWANA, among others. I even created my own 11- sided polyhedron.
I create sculpture on any scale, in a wide range of materials, in various motifs and types of installation. While many of my projects have been in various kinds of metal, such as stainless steel, I especially like working with stone. My sculpture projects tend to be abstract, often geometric in one way or another. Certain projects might have more literal, naturalistic, humanistic or figurative aspects. My stone sculptures tend to be a balance of natural qualities with human interventions. My sculpture may be seen as iconic, for the most part, or symbolic, very often referencing a centre, whether actual or spatial. I often work with space in contrast with form; implied space and ambiguity if incorporating mirror surfaces; a continuum, implied or actual; light and darkness; interior and exterior; natural/organic with man-made.
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