Artist Statement
My assemblage sculptures transform junk and cast-off items into compelling combos and configurations whose parts energize and play off each other. The hope is to inspire a sense of visual poetry from random, disparate parts. The work is a study in radical inclusion—everything, everywhere all at once—while the distressed condition of some components resonate with the Japanese aesthetic concept of “wabi sabi”— referring to the elegance of imperfection and decay.